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Who Needs XFree86?

Posted by Hemos on from the text-only-please dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With this review Linux and Main says it is kicking off a project to put together a Linux machine that operates entirely in the console, including applications, without the user ever having to enter anything at a command prompt. The review is of Twin, the very cool windowing environment for the console. Applications will be added over time, and readers are invited to nominate their favorite little-known console applications."

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  1. Your moma needs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    my first cock in her ass!

    That's right muthafuckas!

  2. HAHAHAHAHA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just watch all of the mac fags get up in arms!!!

    LOLOLOLOL!!!!

  3. Party like it's 1989 by rudy_wayne · · Score: -1, Troll

    Back in the days of DOS and Borland Turbo pascal, I wrote programs using a library that allowed me to create a text-mode windowing system. Nice to see that Linux may someday catch up to 1989-era DOS.

  4. Re:Two questions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    using fvwm2 as window manager,

    [snip]

    I honestly think that when people say X is bloated and slow, they are confusing X with some of the toolkits people use on top of it.

    No, a lot of X advocates confuse the issue. X is nice and fast if all you use is a tookit that has virtually no features and looks like crap. As soon as you try to use one with, say, pixmaps themes or widgets more complicated than a simple textbox, X slows to a crawl. The disgusting client/server architecture, too-primitive X commands and the fact that all the commands have to go via networking or stream sockets means that, shock horror:

    X DOESN'T SCALE.

    It needs to be replaced, along with the huge amounts of dead wood in the XFREE group.