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On Nov 15, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > I've just seen the open source community move from a working system to a > "new and improved" system that is not as featureful, but then they drop > the working system completely without making the new version > feature-compatible. Then those of us using those no-longer-available > features of the old working system get left in the lurch. As a data point, some 90% of X11's capabilities are never used. I pointed this out before but it bears repeating: the X server is a heavy-weight communications server that includes a display system. It would be more accurate to describe a group of X11 workstations as a distributed computing cluster because that's what X11 really is: a networked, distributed computing platform. What Wayland offers is a separation of display from the communications stack. Mapping X11 display primitives to OpenGL/DRI equivalents is not hard. The result will be everything you currently use with the X11 display running faster and with a smaller footprint. The few who need the full communications stack will still have it available via X.Org. Everybody wins. --Rich P.
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