Linked by Sean Oliviero on Wed 28th Jul 2004 05:54 UTC
The promise of Desktop Linux (DL) has been long coming. It's made significant progress since the mid-90s when GNOME and KDE came out, giving Linux users a somewhat modern desktop to work upon. However, it's been 7 years and DL hasn't progressed much at all since then. Today, DL is still nothing more than a UNIX-clone with a task bar, a start menu, and a desktop with some icons on it. But why has DL evolved at such a glacial pace?
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The only complaints the author presents involves the lack of alpha blending and transitions, both of which are possible without breaking the X11 standard. Check out Keith Packard's work on XServer and Xorg at www.freedesktop.org.
The reason X11 is 20 years old and still chuggin' is that it's excellently designed.
Why do people keep bashing X11 without a single valid complaint? Reminds me of SCO...