Timeline for What is X11 exactly?
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| Apr 30, 2021 at 22:09 | comment | added | Quasímodo | Unfortunately this answer starts by conflating concepts: "X11, a.k.a. X.org Foundation Windowing". Gilles' answer explains how they're different from each other, which is the core of the question. | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 21:06 | comment | added | Stefan Skoglund | And it also in another way explains Ken Olsen's characterization of UNIX as snake oil peddler's products, but that IS capitalism ! The claim is design for MOTIF and run everywhere, nowadays it's more like design for MS windows and run everywhere (this a monopoly not a market.) Ken Olsen knew very well that design-for-MOTIF and run-on-everything is not in the producers interest - ergo it won't really happen. | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 21:02 | comment | added | Stefan Skoglund | That is a rant. | |
| Apr 13, 2016 at 13:42 | comment | added | cmaceachern | Also this help explain it, as well as provide some insight into why Wayland and other X replacements are being built: art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html | |
| Apr 13, 2016 at 13:33 | history | edited | cmaceachern | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 36 characters in body |
| Apr 13, 2016 at 13:24 | history | answered | cmaceachern | CC BY-SA 3.0 |