> 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 di

> 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&...