On 4/2/06, Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Because Haiku-only equivalents are not always available. There is an
> enormous array of amazingly useful UNIX software out there, and the
> ability to use these has made OS X amazingly attractive to the
> scientific community. I don't envision a lot of use of GUI apps, because
> we won't have X, but for command-line utilities, this would be an
> amazing thing to have.
> -Nathan
Nate, you, above all people, should know that X is not a requirement,
we have it already (albeit unmantained), and I absolutely CAN live
with rootless X. Massaging Xbeosnative into a full-fledged rootless X
can't be that hard. Either that or, seeing how excellent XMing is,
re-porting the x.org release (which I tried doing a 3-4 years ago, but
it was a shot in the dark as I completely lacked the skills and the
"development machine" was a Pentium 133 and it was *really tiring* to
build for 4+ hours just to see it fail at some point).
If no-one beats me to it, I'll definitely try again by December (when
I graduate) or early 2007. And I'll probably beat Vista's release date
;D
