[aclug-L] Re: Linux Time-Table

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:05:17PM -0600, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> Free software, maybe.  I don't think Linux should do it.  Call me
> old-fassioned... but I like Linux on my servers.  It's doesn't make an
> effecient desktop OS though.

What do you think makes it inefficient?

> Perhaps if we get away from X, that could change.

XFree86 is really a pretty slick system these days.  Applications running
atop a modern XFree86 installation will do a lot better than those running
on a plain vanilla X11R6 installation.

Of course, XFree86 is now doing more to advance the state of the art of X
than the X Consortium / TOG is.

The GNUstep people are also making a lot of nice progress.  GNUstep does run
atop X, and yet it achieves a lot of the advanced rendering capabilities
that are available on NeXT and MacOS X environment.  Sorta a best of both
worlds thing.

-- John
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