"commercial high-performance X servers" in FAQ

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Fri Oct 29 04:56:54 UTC 2004


On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 08:49:16AM +0800, semin at NZ wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> The section "6.4. Are there any commercial high-performance X servers?" in FAQ mentioned Metro Link and Xi Graphics. However, I can't connect on www.metrolink.com.
> 
> On the other hand, although it mentioned about Xi Graphics that "There is a free ``compatibility demo'' of version 5.0 available.", but there're some words in Xi Graphics' site like this:
> 
> Lack of demand caused this OS to be dropped from standard list.
> It is only available for Custom Projects.
> 
> Is that mean we've got to find other place to get commercial X servers?

This FAQ should be taken out back and shot.  They days of commerial
viability of X servers for UNIX-like systmes as a standalone product
have long past.  At least outside very specalized applications.

-- Brooks

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