From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>, "tuhs@tuhs.org" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Early GUI on Linux
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 17:27:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230226012753.GA12775@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W4FSU5sdG=r-y1MGEb=sWjaBgKDdkJV7ROS4bAGijMq-Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 05:49:36PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
> > - were there any window systems popular on early Linux other than X?
>
> Not really. The context at the time was that a lot of folks (well, me)
> wanted a workstation-like experience, but on a machine we could
> individually afford. That basically meant bringing over most of the
> staples one was used to on a (Sun|DEC|HP|SGI) machine, which almost
> universally implied X as a prerequisite. Folks wanted to be able to
> use their customized shell startup files and so on, but also their
> window manager configurations and the like.
Yep, this exactly. I was the weird who carried around an X10 tape,
then an X11 tape, and built all that so it ran on (Sun|DEC|HP|SGI).
I despised all those fancy guis that $VENDOR built, I just wanted
to get work done and I wanted to do it as much as possible the
same way on each box.
So when Linux came around, hello X!
--lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-26 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-25 21:31 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal
2023-02-25 22:49 ` [TUHS] " Dan Cross
2023-02-26 1:27 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2023-02-26 0:39 ` Warner Losh
2023-02-26 1:14 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-02-26 15:50 ` Leah Neukirchen
2023-02-26 16:13 ` Larry McVoy
2023-02-26 16:23 ` Leah Neukirchen
2023-02-26 16:32 ` Warner Losh
2023-02-26 16:39 ` Will Senn
2023-02-26 19:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-02-27 0:16 ` Adam Thornton
2023-02-27 10:09 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-02-26 2:21 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-02-27 17:22 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-02-27 18:32 ` Warner Losh
2023-02-26 2:27 ` Will Senn
2023-02-26 2:30 ` Will Senn
2023-02-26 2:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-02-26 3:28 ` Dan Cross
2023-02-26 3:45 ` Warner Losh
2023-02-26 5:24 ` John Cowan
2023-02-26 5:36 ` Steve Nickolas
2023-02-28 3:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-02-27 17:22 ` Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-02-27 17:59 ` Arno Griffioen via TUHS
2023-02-27 18:07 ` Warner Losh
2023-02-27 20:04 ` [TUHS] Generational development [was Re: Re: Early GUI on Linux] arnold
2023-02-27 20:08 ` [TUHS] " Chet Ramey
2023-02-27 20:22 ` arnold
2023-02-27 20:46 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-27 21:04 ` Dan Cross
2023-02-28 7:59 ` arnold
2023-02-28 15:28 ` Clem Cole
[not found] ` <CAP2nic1STmWn5YTrnvFbexwwfYWT=pD28gXpVS1CVSfOOwxx7g@mail.gmail.com>
2023-02-28 15:50 ` [TUHS] Fwd: " Adam Thornton
2023-02-27 20:50 ` [TUHS] " Chet Ramey
2023-02-27 20:55 ` Bakul Shah
2023-02-27 21:01 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-27 21:15 ` Chet Ramey
2023-02-27 21:22 ` Dan Cross
2023-02-27 20:30 ` [TUHS] Re: Early GUI on Linux Dan Cross
2023-02-28 1:10 ` Alexis
2023-02-28 1:27 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-01 16:39 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-03-01 16:54 ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-01 17:22 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-03-01 17:52 ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-02 1:17 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-02 4:28 ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-02 6:46 ` [TUHS] X timeline Lars Brinkhoff
2023-03-01 18:59 ` [TUHS] Re: Early GUI on Linux Theodore Ts'o
2023-03-02 7:27 ` arnold
2023-02-28 1:08 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-02-28 1:15 ` Clem Cole
2023-02-27 20:56 ` Will Senn
2023-02-27 22:14 ` Andru Luvisi
2023-02-27 22:31 ` David Arnold
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