[forum] Some perspective from the cheap seats...

[forum@XFree86.Org]

David,

Excellent bit of information about how the XFree86 organization
started, and how it works, thank you.

However, I do have a comment below.

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, David Wexelblat wrote:
> ...snipped...
> 
> On The Future Of X
> ------------------
> A number of people has questioned the relevence of X in general. To be
> perfectly honest, I'm one of them. I've even pissed off Keith and many
> others on the Core Team by pointing out that X is obsolescent. I've been
> working in the Windows world for years now, and client-server display
> systems are utterly irrelvent to the majority of real-world computer users.

"client-server display systems are utterly irrelevent" ?

I've got hundreds of thousands of users all over the world, using
Xterminals and LTSP workstations who would beg to differ with you
on this issue.

When it comes to deploying Linux in organizations of any size,
the client-server display model is incredibly important.


> X needs to be replaced by a direct-rendered model, on which a
> backwards-compatible X server can be reasonably trivially implemented.
> 
> But that's my opinion.

And now you've heard my opinion.

Thanks,
Jim McQuillan
jam@Ltsp.org