Ugly Huge BSD Monster

[Brett Glass]

At 11:33 PM 9/1/2003, Randi Harper wrote:

>Ugh. Have you SEEN the X11 spec? If you have to write a window manager, I've heard it's a bloody nightmare. Read the Unix Haters Handbook. The PDF is online somewhere. They have a nice section explaining some of it. For me, it's a matter of: I hate it, I know it's ass, but I have as of yet to see a decent alternative that supports my video card, so I don't complain too loudly when I use it.

The best thing about XFree86, IMHO, is that it would be an excellent source
of hardware driver code for a GOOD system.

--Brett