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Re: Alternative to X on the way...

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From: Ralph
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:12
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thumb_42@yahoo.com wrote:

> In alt.linux beav AT wn DoT com DoT au <"beav AT wn DoT com DoT au">
> wrote:
>> Slashdot reports that development on Y-windows has been resumed.
>> 
>> The Story:
>> 
>> Y Window System Project Started
>>     from the just-in-time-development dept.
>>     posted by michael on Thursday February 19, @12:05 (gui)
>>     http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/19/1628204
>> 
>> The artical includes a url to download the sourcecode, as well as Urls
>> to the development site.
> 
> I've seen these types of projects before, they look like a great idea but
> the installed base that X11 already has is too powerful to overcome, so
> projects like this one seem to come and go. 

Funny, that's what everyone says about MS on the desktop. Guess we should
just give up on enabling desktop features on Linux, eh? 
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From: Ralph <not@chance.org>
Subject: Re: Alternative to X on the way...
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