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X11 has Turned 30 Years Old

posted by martyb on Sunday September 17 2017, @02:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the Happy-Birthday-to-You! dept.

canopic jug writes:

September 15th was the 30th anniversary of the anniversary of X11

The X11 window system turns 30 years old today! X11 which still lives on through today via the X.Org Server on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other operating systems is now three decades old.

It was on this day in 1987 that Ralph Swick of MIT announced the X Window System Version 11 Release 1. As explained in the announcement compared to earlier versions of X, X11 offered "This release represents a major redesign and enhancement of X and signals it's graduation from the research community into the product engineering and development community. The X Window System version 11 is intended to be able to support virtually all known instances of raster display hardware and reasonable future hardware, including hardware supporting deep frame buffers, multiple colormaps and various levels of hardware graphics assist."

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X11-Turns-30

[As a point of reference, Intel introduced the 80386 in 1985 and the 80386SX variant in 1988. --Ed.]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @08:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 18 2017, @08:00AM (#569664)

    X11 is 30 years old, and the competition is still trying to catch up.

    RDP wishes it was as transparent as X11. Oh, there are some extensions to allow sending windows rather than screens, but 1) I've never gotten them to work, and 2) they are a hack consisting of allocating a huge desktop and never allowing any windows to overlap, then cropping each window before sending.

    And wayland is barely at the level of Windows 95 with that piece of crap VNC, while hoping to get the performance of Vista on top of unstable 3D drivers.

    (Meanwhile, Apple probably won't bring out any form of remote GUI until they have their own proprietary network interface).