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X has been dying for possibly longer than Apple. Which is quite impressive.
by PopsiclePete 8y ago
X has been dying for possibly longer than Apple. Which is quite impressive.
- emidln 8y agoX, along with FreeBSD and Lisp have been dying for a few decades now at least. I think the quote goes "doesn't look any deader than usual".
- bitwize 8y agoI think the eventual goal is to get the major DEs and toolkits to stop supporting their X backends in the near future. Then X would be effectively dead but for ancient legacy applications. This has already happened for ALSA with some applications. If you want to use BlueZ or Firefox, your options are either PulseAudio or no sound at all under Linux.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoThey will still support X as an independent server application no different than running Xorg in Windows or MacOS. That can never be obsoleted.
- exikyut 8y agoTIL the PS4 ran a dead OS
- ComputerGuru 8y agoWhat about FreeBSD is dying?
- BurningCycles 8y agoI believe it's referring to the old 'It is official; Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying' statement.