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Linus and folks need to take a different approach here.Linus and folks need to take a different approach here.Posted Jul 29, 2009 23:55 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Linus and folks need to take a different approach here. by drag Parent article: A tempest in a tty pot
Consistent ABIs are impossible.
Also, the X Window System doesn't exist.
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Linus and folks need to take a different approach here. Posted Jul 30, 2009 6:44 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]
The X ABI has been broken hundreds (probably thousands) of times.
I unfondly remember the days of the CU computer lab where some applications would not display properly from the HP to the X terminals but worked from the Sun. I recall it was xv the image viewer that was usually good for breaking this stuff.
I remember some odd problems with that second, higher performing proprietary(I think it was?) X server Red Hat included with the boxed version 5.2.
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