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Y Window System Project Started

Posted by michael on from the just-in-time-development dept.

cuppm writes "Y, Mark Thomas's final year project for his masters degree, is back in active development (outlined here). Here is the email I received: '...Y development is about to start up again. If you are interested in participating, the website is at: http://www.y-windows.org/. There are links to mailing lists there, and you can download the latest development snapshot, which should compile this time :o). I apologise if I did not respond to your email personally. I was on holiday in Japan when the story broke, and by the time I got back I had over 80 emails about the subject, many of them in depth. If you had specific points that you'd like to raise, I suggest re-raising them on the y-devel mailing list.' So for all those who think it's time for a X replacement, here's your shot. And for those X lovers, use Y's extensibility to make it X compatible." See our previous story for more background.

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  1. Re:Good timing by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Maybe the XFree86 4.4 licensing problem would bring more people to using Y.
    Man. Wow. I mean, what -- did you go to Harvard to figure that out, or did you like decode that with your Little Orphan Annie Spy Ring?

    Is now the time to renew my plea for a "+0 Obvious" mod?

  2. Re:Why Windows? by ogre57 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Um, because some people actually like their daily viruses, random crashes, hourly reboots, scads of ads, ... ?

  3. Re:History of X by Thud457 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Ob: "Is its license compatible with the GPL?"

    WTF do we saddle ourselves with the network display code if we don't use it? Can't somebody architect a windowing system that had a plugin to efficiently support remote access?

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  4. Fatalistic NIH Syndrome by Mr.+Piddle · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    X Windows was not created by morons. It has a decent architecture. It is portable.

    The real reason people want to replace X Windows is that it isn't GNU, it doesn't use autoconf, and it can actually compile on something other than GCC 3.3.5.6.1.8.3.2.4! Not only that, it doesn't rely on 1,300,215 GNOME libraries! God, X must suck!

    This isn't flamebait but the damn truth.

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  5. Re:*Sigh* by 0x1337 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hey moron, have you ever USED windows on a pentium 166 with 80MB of memory?

    I did. It sucks. Fuck windows. Fuck MS. Fuck You.