Re: OFFTOPIC: GGI and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux -LONG

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:37:54 +0000 (GMT)


> Why spend time putting a bag on the side of X, even if it will never be entirely
> what you want? Why not just work on developing a new system that will be all
> the things you want, and more extensible and powerful too? I'd hack X if I

Because quite frankly I dont think there is likely to be much to beat X11
+ extensions for a very very long time and X11 is a nice effective open
standard