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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (2344)	10/24/2000 2:27:06 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

I would not ever deny that today's buses, high end graphics cards, faster CPU's and copious RAM allow bloated GUI's to do evermore fancy pants things. But face facts, X-lover, X may have some tricks but it takes 1200 lines of C code to create a window. The various rograms are responsible for their own colour maps and instituting their own windows control. It's a mess, a recipe for code bloat, lock, race and deadlock disaster. It shows in the low number of serious program ports to Linux and the frequent crashes and interferences of the various programs that try to run serious graphics. X is crude and primitive. Mouse, cut and paste and other controls are slow, uncertain and they groan and complain at every turn. Pixels are a rectangular, calling for constant compensation by the graphics programmer. It will be years before CAD and many GIS programs are ported to Xfree86. I use X but I don't have to like it. EC<:-} netlinux.dynip.com