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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. 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