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Disagree about no alternatives

Disagree about no alternatives

Posted Mar 27, 2003 15:36 UTC (Thu) by jlnance (guest, #4081)
Parent article: The X Window System, past and future

The article states that X has no competitors. I do not think that statement does justice to the situation. X11 is basically a communications protocol. You could make analogies to TCP/IP or HTTP. X11 may be the protocol that all Unix workstations use, but that does not mean they are all running the same software. There are different X Servers for Linux, and in that sense you do have a choice.


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