On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 09:23:22AM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > Don't forget that the real intention of UHH was _humor_.
Hear, hear!! My favorite part of UHH is the barf bag that comes along with it. :) > NeWS, while being technologically superior (being based on PostScript, > is vector-based instead of rasterized like X Window, aside from being > faster and lightweight), wasn't published as an open standard for > adoption. Sun was unwilling to disclose the specification to other > vendors, until it was too late. Steve Jobs tried to push for a similar technology (Display PostScript) on his NeXT platform. Where is that now? There are several reasons for X being the de facto GUI under Linux. Chief among them is the availability of a free implementation of X11 (XFree86). Another factor is the availability of applications (clients) that could easily be ported over to X for Linux. If one compares the number of applications that ran under X against the number of applications that ran under a competing GUI environment for Linux, you'd have a myriad reasons for going with X. The inertia is difficult to counter. Andy Sy wrote: > > After reading this, one realizes that the immense pain of dealing > > with X at a time when GUIs were all the rage (back in the late 80s > > to early 90s) was a big factor in holding back *nix's popularity for > > the desktop. Don't forget that the price of entry back then was pretty steep. The Mac and DOS/Windows 3.1x provided GUIs that were definitely more affordable. -- ___ Eric Pareja (xenos AT upm.edu.ph) | Information Management Service [IMS] \e/ Network and Systems Administrator | University of the Philippines Manila _v_ ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~[ http://www.upm.edu.ph/~xenos ]~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~ "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." -Galadriel -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
