Re: new X11 project

From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn_at_freenet.de>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 14:54:21 +0100
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:52:43 -0500
Chuck Robey <chuckr_at_telenix.org> wrote:

> [This is my first time running this mail composing tool, tell me if  
> it's doing something evil I don't see, ok?]
> 
> I just got pointed at a URL, if you haven't, it's most likely worth  
> your time to read this;
> 
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xorg_wayland&num=1
> 

I only briefly looked at this, but it seems like they want to pull ever
more of the functionality of the X-server into the kernel.

This is definitely the wrong approach and smacks of Microsoft type
thinking to me.

Simplifying user-land at the cost of greatly complicating the kernel
is a giant step backwards.

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Gary Jennejohn
Received on Sat Nov 08 2008 - 12:54:24 UTC

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