Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 14:54:21 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new X11 project Message-ID: <20081108145421.5c47c31c@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <0E1DCF36-07A1-4A7F-8784-477709445C26@telenix.org> References: <0E1DCF36-07A1-4A7F-8784-477709445C26@telenix.org>
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On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:52:43 -0500 Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> wrote: > [This is my first time running this mail composing tool, tell me if > it's doing something evil I don't see, ok?] > > I just got pointed at a URL, if you haven't, it's most likely worth > your time to read this; > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xorg_wayland&num=1 > I only briefly looked at this, but it seems like they want to pull ever more of the functionality of the X-server into the kernel. This is definitely the wrong approach and smacks of Microsoft type thinking to me. Simplifying user-land at the cost of greatly complicating the kernel is a giant step backwards. --- Gary Jennejohn
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