Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 1st Jul 2002 17:50 UTC
David Dawes is maybe the most active XFree86 developer and he is also the lead founder of the project. He works for Tungsten Graphics, which is the main company working on the XFree, DRI and Mesa codebases today. We are happy to host an interview with David, discussing the present and future of XFree86 project. Update: Still confused how a VSYNCed desktop look like? Read here.
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If you want Quartz then you better start from scratch, or just use OS X. X11 is decidedly NOT going in that direction. X11 developers are still looking at technical means to bypass X11 design faults made at the very beginning. In my opinion they ought to virtualize as much of X11 as possible in a simpler graphics library which developers could port to today, then when it comes time to get rid of X11 once and for all that library could be ported to the new display server.
The only good news is fewer apps are using X11 directly and are instead using graphics libraries which aren't dependent on X11. Unfotunately they still don't behave the same so the major old problem will remain for decades from now. Personally I find X11 more bothersome than simply using the terminal, it's far too chaotic and human unfriendly.