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X Window System Turns 30 Years Old

Posted by timothy on from the wax-nostalgic-below dept.

An anonymous reader writes "One of the oldest pieces of the Linux desktop stack still widely in use today is the X Window System that today is commonly referred to as X11 or in recent years the X.Org Server. The X Window System predates the Linux kernel, the Free Software Foundation, GCC, and other key pieces of the Linux infrastructure — or most software widely-used in general. Today marks 30 years since the announcement of X at MIT when it was introduced to Project Athena." X wasn't new when I first saw it, on Sun workstations the summer before I started college. When did you first encounter it?

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  1. time to die... by bumba2014 · · Score: 3, Funny

    30 years is long enough.... time for the ritual of "Carrousel"...

  2. Too old. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    30 is ancient in computer years, the X system is too old for the new generation of developers. I recommend we replace it with a far more superior one written in Javascript and Rails. With AGILE development methods we can have a better system up in a week.

  3. When did I first see X? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I first remember seeing X11 on a family vacation. We visited my uncle on his remote tropical island on which he was building a theme-park. My sister actually introduced me to it, because she knew it.