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X11 Window System Turns 25 Years Old

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 15, 2012 @04:00AM 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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Happy Birthday by ADRA · 2012-09-15 04:20 · Score: 4, Funny

I only met you 12 years ago, but I've been obsessed with you ever since. Its been so long, that I just had to say something now.. Please please don't jump the shark like so many others these days... I just love you the way you are!

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From the article by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-15 04:33 · Score: 3, Funny

It only took three years to go from X1 to X11
Of course. First X1, then X10, then X11 (to be followed by X100, then X101, then X110, then X111, then X1000, etc.)
You must be new here.
Re:I can only hope... by nurb432 · 2012-09-15 04:38 · Score: 3, Funny

You have no clue what X11 is all about, and are a fool.

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Re:Better than usual from Phoronix by shiftless · 2012-09-15 08:38 · Score: 3, Funny

It's the clients (i.e. there toolkits) which have to learn to switch between servers.

Sounds trivial.