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X Might Be Ready For IPV6

Posted by timothy on from the bajillions-and-bajillions dept.

makapuf writes "According to linuxtoday, the X Consortium has published enhancement proposals to let X and IPV6 interoperate. This is surely a relief for the masses here that longed for X support for IPV6. Or the contrary? The proposal can be found here."

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  1. X is a thing of the past by SlashdotMirrorer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Someone on here jokingly mentioned that X was the only thing holding them back on IPv6. Really it should be X that's holding IPv6 back.

    Can't we please start over with a clean slate on window management (perhaps even with a decent license)? X is a creaking relic of a time when everyone had to run their applications over a network because their own computers weren't fast enough. Does anyone do that anymore? I don't think so.

    Far superior systems like Microsoft's DirectX and Apple Computer's Aqua seem to be the wave of the future. If the open source community can stop playing "bearded terminal hacker" for a moment to implement a more modern system, I believe it may be taken more seriously than this networking hack that was never meant to get past the first couple of versions.