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Mandrakelinux Goes X.org
dvalin writes "With Mandrakelinux now going for X.org it seems like every big linux distributor now has officialy dumped XFree86.
First release for cooker was announced on the changelog list the 7th of June:
http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/changelog/2004-0 6/msg00799.php
Nice to see for all us cookers out there:)
Also on another note, Mandrakelinux has also switched to gcc-3.4 now"
Let us know when you've finished implementing the replacement.
Yes, because you can't bring up criticism of anything unless you're a programmer. That'll bring these projects to the masses.
Don't forget the network transparency.
Y-Windows.
Please also make sure it's at least as fast as XFree86 (not an easy task)
XFree86 is NOT fast. Holy christ.
, as extensible as X11 (which now makes effective use of hardware features that were undreamed-of 20 years ago)
Congratulations, you got the ability to change resolutions on the fly and are just getting around to translucency! Meanwhile, OS X and Windows are already moving onto full 3D acceleration.
, as easy to program with as GTK and Qt
GTK and QT are far from easy to program, and they are one of some 20 libraries for developing apps. Instead of just one library.
, as portable as XFree86 and supports as many video cards as XFree86.
You're right. Nobody should ever replace anything because you might end up supporting less video cards on your first release! Let's stick with broken technology.
Making it easier to configure would be good, but X.org will probably beat you to that.
I seriously doubt it. After decades of XFree86 development, we've got what--XConfigurator?
Making it less resource-intensive would be good, also
So much for those "fast" claims.
but the various projects working on making X servers that run on tiny hardware platforms will probably beat you to that, too.
Yeah, there are about 50 "various projects" always working on something. We'll wait and see when the 1.0 releases come out, shall we?
Anyway, happy hacking!
Next.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Surely by now there should be a better low level windowing system than X for linux. It's structure is antiquated and it runs like syrup, even on 3GHz PCs.