From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5d375e920907080405g247dea04h6e0f9cbb58fb9afc@mail.gmail.com> References: <5d375e920907080322kec072fcv65e98cb6c81c7ef6@mail.gmail.com> <1e29efcab5e94b5f21bc1f77b95dafb6@hamnavoe.com> <5d375e920907080405g247dea04h6e0f9cbb58fb9afc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:34:17 +0100 Message-ID: <89d1e7b80907080434v415530bey872e18a36437ddb9@mail.gmail.com> From: Anselm R Garbe To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS Topicbox-Message-UUID: 15dbb4f4-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2009/7/8 Uriel : > My evidence is familiarity with the garbage chrome depends on, you can > expect Cairo, gtk/glib, dbus and the rest of the freedesktop.org > 'standard' crap pile at the very least. > > And they will need to do flash somehow, so I would not be surprised if > 'window system' in this context simply means 'window manager' to keep > compatibility with all the plugins, input methods, font management and > other junk that X provides. > > I could be wrong, but I have not seen any evidence that could > contradict any of this. android doesn't use X and its browser application is still WebKit based. So ideally they will really do a new window system, but we'll see. Kind regards, Anselm