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On general principle, I think 22 years of inactivity is perfectly reasonable for considering any software project perfectly dead.

aleph_minus_one 4mo ago
That's why I wrote "existed" (simple past).
- Klonoar 4mo ago
  The “be aware” is the problematic text; nobody cares that a two decade old dead project has the same name.
  - aleph_minus_one 4mo ago
    People who have been programming for a long time often have very good memories of old projects and software in which they had a lot of hope, but which failed at the end.
    - Natfan 4mo ago
      i feel likt there's likely more programmers who weren't aware of a 20yo (unfortunately) failed project, compared to the amount of programmers who would be aware of this project, if it succeeded
      - aleph_minus_one 4mo ago
        > i feel likt there's likely more programmers who weren't aware of a 20yo (unfortunately) failed project At that time, what should replace X11 was a heavily discussed topic, so people who were already interested in programming under GNU/Linux at this time typically remember intense discussions on the internet about the pro-s and con-s of lots of proposals to replace X11. Proposals that I have in mind are: - Y Window System - Fresco: https://web.archive.org/web/20100729184325/http://fresco.org/introduction.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100729184325/http://fresco.org... - Xynth: https://github.com/alperakcan/xynth https://github.com/alperakcan/xynth - Xfast: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xfast/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/xfast/ (here a German article about Xfast from 2008: https://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2008/11/ohne-x-tras/ https://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2008/11/ohne-x-tras/ ) - Mir (Ubuntu) as the main competitor to Wayland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(software) - Wayland - ... and very likely many, many more proposals. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Windowing_system&oldid=1346229929#For_Unix-like_operating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Windowing_system&...
goodmythical 4mo ago
On general principle, I think sharing but a single character between names of products is perfectly reasonable for considering any names perfectly seperable. No one's comparing this to 'y'combinator or 'y'ahoo. 'server' and 'window system' are completely different...

aleph_minus_one 4mo ago

That's why I wrote "existed" (simple past).

Klonoar 4mo ago
The “be aware” is the problematic text; nobody cares that a two decade old dead project has the same name.
- aleph_minus_one 4mo ago
  People who have been programming for a long time often have very good memories of old projects and software in which they had a lot of hope, but which failed at the end.
  - Natfan 4mo ago
    i feel likt there's likely more programmers who weren't aware of a 20yo (unfortunately) failed project, compared to the amount of programmers who would be aware of this project, if it succeeded
    - aleph_minus_one 4mo ago
      > i feel likt there's likely more programmers who weren't aware of a 20yo (unfortunately) failed project At that time, what should replace X11 was a heavily discussed topic, so people who were already interested in programming under GNU/Linux at this time typically remember intense discussions on the internet about the pro-s and con-s of lots of proposals to replace X11. Proposals that I have in mind are: - Y Window System - Fresco: https://web.archive.org/web/20100729184325/http://fresco.org/introduction.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100729184325/http://fresco.org... - Xynth: https://github.com/alperakcan/xynth https://github.com/alperakcan/xynth - Xfast: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xfast/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/xfast/ (here a German article about Xfast from 2008: https://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2008/11/ohne-x-tras/ https://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2008/11/ohne-x-tras/ ) - Mir (Ubuntu) as the main competitor to Wayland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(software) - Wayland - ... and very likely many, many more proposals. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Windowing_system&oldid=1346229929#For_Unix-like_operating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Windowing_system&...

goodmythical 4mo ago

On general principle, I think sharing but a single character between names of products is perfectly reasonable for considering any names perfectly seperable. No one's comparing this to 'y'combinator or 'y'ahoo. 'server' and 'window system' are completely different...