On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 16:02, Michel Clasquin wrote: > On Sunday 20 January 2002 18:37, Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: > > Hi, > > > > just to pulse the list opinion on this topic, > > The point here is, if Linux wants to make it on the desktop and on > > embedded appliances (with builtin screens) it should start to think > > about getting rid of the old and heavy XWindows. > > FYI, here is a bunch of BeOS fans trying to recreate their OS on top of > the Linux kernel: > > http://blueos.free.fr/ > > If I understand what they are trying to do, this will eventually involve > dumping X
If I recall correctly, the BlueOS people were talking about using Berlin as a windowing system. The web page for the Berlin project can be found at www.berlin-consortium.org. Quite frankly, I don't think that BlueOS is viable as there is too much diference between BeOS and Linux at the kernel level, at best they will be able to do is come up with a version of Linux that looks sort of like BeOS. I would like to see OpenBeOS (open-beos.sourceforge.net) succeed, but it looks like a pretty ambitious project... Anyway, enough about BeOS. It's too depressingly similar to what happened with Amiga... Personally, I'm not to optimistic that a viable replacment for X is going to happen anytime soon. Sure, X has it's warts but it works well enough for most applications that developing an alternative isn't too high a priority. And besides, any alternative display system will need to have an 'X' compatability layer to run existing software, which will make it even slower than X displays.
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