A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo

Re:A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo by snotrockets on Thursday October 27, 2011 @08:51AM (#3162773)

If there is anything Maemo was to be shot for, is that it continued to support the horrible disaster which is the X Windows System. That horrible, horrible excuse for a graphic system should be taken out and shot, the sooner the better (and no, I'm not bitter. Just a little bit tangy, perhaps.)

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Re:A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo by mbq on Thursday October 27, 2011 @09:18AM (#3162873)

Yup, it is horrible and has some serious design flaws. But it can deal with low-level graphics, an in general hopeless and horrible activity based on numerous quirks and hacks -- and this makes a value overcoming most of its problems. Not to mention that there is a wide X ecosystem of libs, apps and know-how that is effectively smoothing its shortcomings.

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Re:A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo by zokier on Thursday October 27, 2011 @11:40AM (#3163673)

I think there were plans to port Meego onto Wayland.

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Re:A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo by tobiasu on Thursday October 27, 2011 @08:56AM (#3162788)

How is X11 a horrible disaster?

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Re:A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo by tobiasu on Thursday October 27, 2011 @09:08AM (#3162832)

Yes, I'm sure the ancient UNIX haters handbook is totally relevant to the shortcomings of X11 at the end of 2011.

Edit: deleted comment refered to this http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast...

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