Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:11:01 +0200 | From | Diego Calleja García <> | Subject | Re: Can't X be elemenated? |
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El Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:14:56 +0530 "kartikey bhatt" <kartik_me@hotmail.com> escribió:
> 1st. X is bloat. Though it's good for server environments. For desktop pcs > it's too heavy. On my machine (PIII500 with 128MB RAM) I have to choose from > either to run X or compile 2.6.0-test6. > > 2nd. It's process based client/server architecture is a bottleneck. It's not > as interactive as is supposed to be.
You might want to discuss that with X people. It's been demonstrated that the client/server model is noy a bottleneck...in fact there're benchmarks which show X being almost as fast as the windows GDI... (using the shared memory extension)
> > 3rd. Most important. I can't impress or convince my window(crash)(TM) user > friends, relatives (who saw X running on my pc) to use Linux.
I can impress them quite well running the X server in a different machine :)
> > 4th. I want to see desktop being ruled by Linux.
It's already ruling my desktop 8)
But you might want to talk with X developers. Linus it's just the kernel maintainer.
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