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X11 Alternatives?

Posted by Cliff on from the tired-of-singing-that-same-old-tune dept.

James Skarzinskas asks: "X has been, in general, the most widely used and acknowledged to many as the 'graphics of Linux'. During the last few years, projects like the Linux Framebuffer have really taken off and related projects have shown real potential. I'm just wondering if the Slashdot community knows of any less-public alternative to X; perhaps even using the Linux framebuffer?" Aside from SVGALib, what other graphical infrastructures exist for Unix-based systems?

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  1. Old timers will remember... by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Many years ago, when Slashdot was young, and moderation not yet a dream...

    There were endless discussions of Berlin, and how it was going to sweep Linux and the BSD's into the graphical future, from the chains of a graphical past.

    X is still here in 2002, and its progeny will be in place 15 years from now. It will be worked on by CS students who got their MS working on various "Berlin's".

    BTW: Who remembers Sun's NeWS - a DPS-based windowing system with network transparency? Why doesn't Apple license the old sources for a model at extending Aqua on the wire? They will just re-invent this stuff again on the Quartz layer of 2005. Oh, well....

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    1. Re:Old timers will remember... by Matthew+Weigel · · Score: 3, Interesting

      They just didn't bother porting -NXHost to PDF from PostScript, I suppose.

      Nah, from what I read it was a design decision - keeping all the layers necessary to do that was a real performance hit, so they cheated and cut through some layers of abstraction. And, given the performance of Aqua, I can't say I blame them.

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      --Matthew