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Re:X12 by adrianmsmith on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @03:46AM (#34967112)
XFree86 in 1999 might not have been, but in 1994 when I went to university in the UK and was using Sun computers which were solely X servers to display programs running on the "main" shared computer in the corner of the room, X and all the associated software was all stable and worked fine.
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Re:X12 by pjmlp on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @11:37AM (#34971344)
Solaris X Server wasn't the same.
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Re:X12 by vetinari on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @03:51PM (#34974652)
At our uni, we used DEC and had vxt2000 terminals. It worked fine, just like wayland does today. But it wasn't rock stable, or even remotely secure.
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Re:X12 by wkat4242 on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @07:06PM (#34976807)
Secure no, lol. But in those days telnet was still the norm.

At my college they didn't even have xauth implemented which was loads of fun embarrassing other users with xv and some cool pictures :P Or xblast

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Re:X12 by vetinari on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @07:14AM (#34981498)
We didn't have xauth either; our fun was xeyes.
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