From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 13:57:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBB9C16A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:57:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta2.adelphia.net (mta2.adelphia.net [68.168.78.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E012543FBF for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:57:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([68.68.113.33]) by mta2.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031112215735.WBRZ11586.mta2.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:57:35 -0500 Message-ID: <3FB2ACCA.8050708@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:57:30 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan References: <20031112204135.GA8944@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <20031112204135.GA8944@online.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Miguel Mendez cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of X? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:57:33 -0000 Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > As for "X-replacement" projects like Berlin/Fresco, I don't see the > point. I think it would benefit things just as OpenBSD and NetBSD benefit FreeBSD ... it's another place for different ideas to gel and mature. Like Mach and AFS, even if it never becomes a complete replacement, it will help to advance the state of the art for its competitors. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com