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To: E. Charters who wrote (612)11/21/1998 3:07:00 AM
From: Mitch Blevins  Read Replies (2) of 2615
 
Of course I'm always happy for improvements, but I think you may have a rather unusual situation in your valient battles with X (as documented on this thread).

Like Thomas, I have not experienced these lockups/crashes with X. There is an occasional netscape crash, but it just disappears and I can start it right back up. (Makes me wonder if this wasn't a feature to prevent excess memory leaks...)

I use the XFree86 server, but I've never had a problem with my Matrox cards (Millenium or Mystique). I've also had no problems with my ATI card, but I haven't used it enough to give it a good review. Perhaps you just have a problem with either your hardware or configuration that is causing your disillusionment with the X architecture.

Sure X is complex and hard to set up, but it's also very powerful and versatile. You can customize the living shit out of it and run it transparently over the network. What more could you ask for?

It is a bitch to program to, but you can utilize one of the easy-to-use toolkits to help out there. (GTK is fairly straightforward). Plus most of the toolkits are cross-platform.

Original criticisms of X were that it took way too much CPU and memory. This was true at the time. However, now hardware has caught up so that X can actually feel 'zippy'.

"All we are saying... is give X a chance." - John Linux
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