Re: Can't X be elemenated?

Diego Calleja García
2003-09-29T21:11:04Z

El Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:14:56 +0530 "kartikey bhatt" <kartik_me@hotmail.com> escribió:

> 1st. X is bloat. Though it's good for server environments. For desktop pcs
> it's too heavy. On my machine (PIII500 with 128MB RAM) I have to choose from
> either to run X or compile 2.6.0-test6.
>
> 2nd. It's process based client/server architecture is a bottleneck. It's not
> as interactive as is supposed to be.

You might want to discuss that with X people. It's been demonstrated that the
client/server model is noy a bottleneck...in fact there're benchmarks which show
X being almost as fast as the windows GDI... (using the shared memory extension)

>
> 3rd. Most important. I can't impress or convince my window(crash)(TM) user
> friends, relatives (who saw X running on my pc) to use Linux.

I can impress them quite well running the X server in a different machine :)

>
> 4th. I want to see desktop being ruled by Linux.

It's already ruling my desktop 8)

But you might want to talk with X developers. Linus it's just the kernel
maintainer.