Re: Linux v/s Mac OS X?

[Mayuresh A Kathe <mayuresh@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Raju,

Sorry about that (screwing up the name)...

The 'X Window System' is really sick in today's environment because we have
all the power to run our Graphics systems as well as apps locally...
It really doesn't make sense to run the X Server and the X Clients on the
same machine, something like running telnet to run applications on your own
machine from your own machine :-)

Secondly, it was DOA because if you look at the way it was developed, God,
you would just pass-out reading the way they tried to cover up their
deficiencies...

Please visit http://catalog.com/hopkins/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html

Any way, please visit the following URLs, they make real good reading:
http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley9.html

http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html

Warm Regards.

~Mayuresh


on 23/3/2001 7:04 PM, Raju Mathur at raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> <nitpick>
> 
> Nice argument, except you're applying it to a non-existent product.
> There's no such thing as ``X Windows''.
> 
> From man X:
> 
>      The X Consortium requests that the following names be used
>      when referring to this software:
> 
>                                  X
>                           X Window System
>                             X Version 11
>                     X Window System, Version 11
>                                 X11
> 
> </nitpick>
> 
> IAC it'd be nice if you gave some reasoning why this putative ``X
> Windows'' is the shit/DOA you claim it to be.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- Raju
> 
>>>>>> "Mayuresh" == Mayuresh A Kathe <mayuresh@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>   Mayuresh> Atul, I beg to differ on this point...  But, NeXTStep
>   Mayuresh> was the *first* Unix to have an absolutely elegant and
>   Mayuresh> stable interface...  (Again, that¹s because they didn't
>   Mayuresh> use X Windows ;-)
> 
>   Mayuresh> <click> Asbestos Underwear in Place ;-) </click>
> 
>   Mayuresh> To be very frank, X Windows is absolute shit...  It is
>   Mayuresh> dead, or rather as they say in America Hospital Slang,
>   Mayuresh> it was DOA i.e.  Dead On Arrival
> 
>   Mayuresh> ~Mayuresh