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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. What is Wayland? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Posting AC cuz I'm not a karma whore

    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Wayland

    1. Re:What is Wayland? by Paul+Jakma · · Score: 4, Informative

      Wayland isn't a Canonical thing. There's a bunch of people from various companies working on it, including Intel and RedHat.

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  2. Re:age becomes me by sconeu · · Score: 4, Informative

    Back in the day (1992), we used to run SCO Unix on a 486 box with HDS X terminals connected to it.

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