SGI's migration to X

[Drew R Whitehouse]

In article <SLEHAR.90Aug30173222 at bucasd.bu.edu>, slehar at bucasd.bu.edu
(Steve Lehar) writes:
|> ........stuff deleted.....
|> Now I know that X is designed to run on any hardware, which is  why
it
|> is so complicated, while the SGI stuff only runs on  SGI, and  that
is
|> why  it is so simple  and elegant.   Nevertheless,  I think SGI did
an
|> EXCEPTIONAL job in their graphics software, and  I  would not hurry
on
|> over to X  unless I  were  absolutely FORCED  to  do  so!  X is
messy,
|> inordinately complicated, atrociously documented and unreliable. (My
X
|> image windows  are prone to   suddenly  disappearing if  they've 
been
|> around for a while) My advice is to stick with SGI!


	I work in a multi vendor environment and can't wait for SG to
go to X. Not to mention the fact that there is LOTS of good public
domain software written for X windows(something you can't say about
SGI's NeWS). And I like the window managers you get with X eg vtwm.
I'm still stuck with the 3.2 X server since the Australian branch
won't give us 3.3 yet, and it's driving me around the bend. So full
speed ahead on the migration to X.
	
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