From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 19 01:53:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3166116A41C for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 01:53:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryans@gamersimpact.com) Received: from mailserv1.neuroflux.com (ns2.neuroflux.com [204.228.228.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF96D43D4C for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 01:53:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryans@gamersimpact.com) Received: (qmail 19079 invoked by uid 1003); 19 Jun 2005 01:55:36 -0000 Received: from ryans@gamersimpact.com by mailserv1.neuroflux.com by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (clamscan: 0.65. spamassassin: 2.60. Clear:RC:1(63.229.220.75):. Processed in 1.221617 secs); 19 Jun 2005 01:55:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (63.229.220.75) by mailserv1.neuroflux.com with SMTP; 19 Jun 2005 01:55:35 -0000 Message-ID: <42B4D00F.1060907@gamersimpact.com> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:53:19 -0500 From: Ryan Sommers User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DANIEL hoggan References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Standard GUI for UNIX at the system level X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 01:53:08 -0000 DANIEL hoggan wrote: > > Is there any reason as to why X cannot be rewrote to be the standard > interface to UNIX? Look at the KGI (Kernel Graphics Interface) project http://kgi-wip.sourceforge.net/ Although they aren't looking to make X the standard interface it's something around what you're thinking about. However, there is a very good reason WHY the standard interface is still the console, the fact that most UNIX computers are probably still being used for servers rather than workstations. Adding a GUI to a server is a pointless consumption of resources in most cases. -- Ryan Sommers ryans@gamersimpact.com