From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Hello
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:45:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwa7ow2k.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120607161928.GE163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (Rich Felker's message of "Thu, 7 Jun 2012 12:19:28 -0400")
Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 06:29:13PM +0200, John Spencer wrote:
>> >At this time I think to take an older X release without some stuff I
>> >don't need. X11R7.6 build requires python and weird xml libs for
>> >example. Maybe even XFree86 (to test it in qemu for the micro desktop
>> >system project).
>> >
>> what kept me from configuring X11 to work properly is its huge
>> freaking complexity.
>> if an older version is simpler and can do the job as well, i'm all for it.
>> i fear though that you won't get any up-to-date software compiled
>> against it.
>> probably not worth the effort.
>
> As far as the server goes, even the oldest X server versions should
> work fine with modern software (aside from possibly being really slow
> when the software wants to do 3D, etc.). That's how X was designed.
Reality is, applications simply won't work without XRENDER, XKB and other
2000'ish things. E.g. GTK generally needs 8bpp or more, or it will not
even start.
--
Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-07 12:01 Hello orc
2012-06-07 13:13 ` Hello John Spencer
2012-06-07 15:18 ` Hello orc
2012-06-07 16:29 ` Hello John Spencer
2012-06-07 16:19 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-06-07 17:15 ` Hello orc
2012-06-08 3:31 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-06-08 5:49 ` Hello Isaac Dunham
2012-06-08 12:28 ` Hello aep
2012-06-08 14:14 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-06-08 16:17 ` Hello aep
2012-06-08 16:11 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-06-09 2:05 ` Hello Isaac Dunham
2012-07-05 17:24 ` Hello orc
2012-07-05 23:34 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-07-06 6:06 ` Hello orc
2012-07-06 6:26 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-07-06 8:22 ` Hello orc
2012-07-06 23:14 ` Hello idunham
2012-07-07 0:57 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-07-07 8:07 ` Hello orc
2012-07-07 15:54 ` Hello idunham
2012-07-08 9:09 ` Hello orc
2012-06-07 17:45 ` Christian Neukirchen [this message]
2012-06-07 18:03 ` Hello Jens Staal
2012-06-07 19:10 ` Hello John Spencer
2012-06-07 17:33 ` Hello Jens Staal
2012-06-07 17:59 ` Hello orc
2012-06-20 7:29 ` Hello orc
2012-06-23 1:43 ` Hello idunham
2012-06-23 1:51 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-06-25 12:09 ` Hello orc
2012-06-25 11:59 ` Hello orc
2012-06-25 13:53 ` Hello idunham
2012-07-22 23:09 Hello idunham
2012-07-23 2:01 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-07-23 3:49 ` Hello idunham
2012-07-23 21:01 ` Hello Rich Felker
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