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X11 Window System Turns 25 Years Old

Posted by Soulskill on from the old-enough-to-rent-a-car dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The widely used X11 Window System has turned 25 years old today. Version 11 of the X Window System is likely to remain in use for many years to come for backwards compatibility with the many legacy applications, BSD/Solaris systems, and Enterprise Linux distributions. Meanwhile, Wayland is still working to unseat the X Server for the common Linux desktop."

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  1. Re:X12? by Randle_Revar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Too bad Wayland is terrible.

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