[Gllug] X What Next?

[Tethys]

Peter Childs writes:

>    Since XFree86 is basically no londer Free and Debian and  Mandrake 
>are thinking of ditching it. What are the alteratives are they any good.

The alternative is the X.org server, to which the main distributions are
switching.

>    And who (if anyone) is going to be using XF***86 in 12 months.

There will still be a few. There is still a chance that what's left of
the XFree86 organisation will come to their senses.

>    Is now the time that somone comes up with a big replacement thats 
>going to reform Linux for the Graphical environment and be bigger than 
>windows?

No. Anyone that thinks X needs replacing simply doesn't understand X.
Replacing the current crop of window managers and "desktop environments"
is an approach more likely to yield rewards. But GNOME and KDE have too
much momentum at the moment for that to be a likely outcome.

Tet
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