Oh. Oops, noticed the date. How things change in just a few years. =) Still, it shows how fast X is progressing, now that we've ditched XFree86. Since the spl

Oh. Oops, noticed the date. How things change in just a few years. =) Still, it shows how fast X is progressing, now that we've ditched XFree86. Since the split, X has really moved into the 90s, gaining <sarcasm>esoteric</sarcasm> features like monitor hotplugging, being able to configure more than one input device at once (like a touchpad and external mouse) and other silly things that nobody would ever want. It's also jumped ahead of other window systems by leaps and bounds in some areas -- for example, multitouch support has been merged in, and X will be the first desktop window system to support multiple pointers, input redirection is on it's way, a new OpenGL framework (Gallium3D) is coming, new 2d acceleration (Exa/GEM/TTM/...) are in various states of merged-inness, etc. And they've done all of this while deleting between 10,000 and 50,000 lines of code per release. And preserving backwards compatibility. I'd say the future looks pretty bright for X. [edit: give a better overview of what I mean by X progressing]