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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 02:09:23
Message-Id: 7573e9640601131803k11fa9033udd954b316de514a6@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] xorg-server by krgn
1 On 1/13/06, krgn <k.gebbert@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > How is it actually with Y-windows, most of the apps and window-managers
3 > that work under X won't work under Y, correct?
4
5 Y-windows is dead. Based on the mailing list archives, nobody is
6 working on it. It is also hard-masked pending removal from portage.
7 The basic problem seems to be that when XFree forked to X.org, the
8 need for and interest in Y-windows evaporated.
9
10 The most interesting graphics work today is being done by
11 freedesktop.org, including x.org.
12
13 -Richard
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