On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 16:59:39 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "xui" is a nice descriptive name and gets the point across in a > reasonably unambiguous way. wayland is not X11, but it comes from a > desire to do what X11 does without X11's problems. And I have a few other perks of xui too. we could in a pinch pretend it means "x/ui", if people aren't comfortable with considering "Wayland" to be "An X". Then "X/UI" would be "X, and things like it" The wiki page for "X Windows System"[1] also had some interesting notes. > X Consortium release manager Matt Landau stating in 1993, "There is > no such thing as 'X Windows' or 'X Window', despite the repeated > misuse of the forms by the trade rags" Neat. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#Nomenclature
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