Re: The new X-Kernel !

From: Gábor Lénár (lgb@lgb.hu)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 02:37:28 EST


On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:30:00PM +0100, MichaelM wrote:
> People need a nice stable Operating System for networking purposes of any
> type, and this exists, linux of course. What else should the world need?
>
> People need a nice stable Operating System for Desktop and Multimedia
> purposes and this doesn't exist. We should create a new stable X-Kernel with
> build in support for X. Pressing Alt-F1 a console should pop up.
>
> Boots up with X, that means.
>
> Come on Linus, show the world what you can do, release the X-Kernel 1.01.
>
> Hit the MS dominar where it hurts, THE DESKTOP.

I've never understood why people want X, StarOffice (OpenOffice) etc to be
moved into kernel space :) IMHO it's strictly user space issue. You can
start X or gdm/xdm/kdm from a boot script and so on. No kernel modification
is needed for this.

- Gabor
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