Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCE New Open Source X server | Date | Thu, 19 Apr 2001 04:54:52 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> different, new, from scratch, to go in another direction. I think Linus > himself did this back in 1991, obviously not with X, but you get the > idea I think. If not, then don't bother answering cuz it'll just be a
Yeah and we spent most of those 10 years reinventing wheels in order to make them free. There are people doing interesting things with X rendering and the ideas behind it. Some of them have been at it since Linus was a small child. The TinyX server framework also lets you hack arbitarily interesting card drivers into a nice easy framework.
There are also folks like the directfb people who've implemented something Rasterman ranted about ages ago - which is using the 3d hardware subsystem to render windows as rectangular textures.
I've seen exactly _one_ X project that is justifiably seperate. Thats weirdX and its separate because its in Java. If you like the idea of
http://localhost/
giving you an Xdm window you'll find it worth a play
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