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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by nqzero on Sunday July 07, 2019 @08:24PM (#20378952)
> no one goes around calling that one OS a "giant, existential, ecosystem-fragmenting threat to the open-source community."

we did do that, and they were, but for the most part, for the moment (at least) we've won - so it's no longer on the tip of our tongue

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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by incompatible on Monday July 08, 2019 @03:00AM (#20380486)
I'm not sure what victory is being declared here: is Wayland likely to run on more than a tiny fraction of devices any time in the near future? If not, that "one OS" can take a large part of the blame.
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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by pjmlp on Monday July 08, 2019 @08:12AM (#20382034)
In an age where POSIX is sliding into irrelevance in what concerns mobile and embedded OSes.

"POSIX Has Become Outdated"

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/issues/login_fall1...

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