From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 04:58:10 +1000 From: David Hogan dhog@lore.plan9.cs.su.oz.au Subject: X11 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 599eb748-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19970502185810.IypxiYNCYRUl0t_vVWugmZ0JjBaLMEZHilODrHJgYQA@z> > From: Boyd Roberts > From: Nigel Roles > Sounds fine, so long as it isn't compulsory to run it..... Nobody's forcing you to run anything. > i can't imagine why the x proponents would want to run all those horrible > x programs. plan 9 doesn't have or need x. it's a _feature_. I agree that X is horrible, but it is still useful to be able to run X programs (netscape in particular). Ok, so netscape is horrible too, but it's ``one of those programs that you hate, but have to run''. Until the world realizes that Plan 9 is the Uber Operating System, and ports all the useful applications to it (or writes Plan 9 replacements which are much, much better), it will be useful to be able to run an X server under Plan 9.