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Another way of looking at it is that when Linux started its goal was
100% alignment with the established "real" Unix base. Now that it
has become a stronger force than "real" Unix, it is starting to shed
some of the long time inefficiencies of Unix. X Windows has always
had issues. We are now seeing a programming force around planet
trying to come up with something better. Like anything open source
in nature, there are a few contenders out there (Mir, Wayland). Time
will show what happens...<br>
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If you don't like Mir, there are plenty of other distros out there
this still offer X Windows. <br>
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On 07/20/2013 08:54 AM, Matt Parrott wrote:
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<div>The bad news is that the open source community has proven
itself utterly incapable of creatively and effectively
adapting its core principles to the desktop, and has failed
spectacularly. The good news is that the browser will
completely swallow the desktop, which will place Linux in a
tactically enviable position once again. Linux is going to win
despite decades of heroic attempts to lose spectacularly at
the GUI game.<br>
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When you think about it philosophically, a computer desktop
which is aligned with Unix principles would be networked,
tools-and-pipes oriented, and flexible enough to deploy on a
variety of operating systems and contexts. In other words, the
Linux Desktop has been around the whole time and has been
kicking ass. For historical reasons, the Linux Desktop is
called a "web browser". A ChromeBook-like experience atop a
Linux engine is the end game.</div>
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<div>I switched to ChromeBook a year ago and I haven't looked
back (the keyboard is infinitely superior to the cluttered
nightmare you get with Win boxes, like Happy Hacker
laptop-edition). The community hasn't come around to providing
the ChromeBook front-end with a local Linux backend, yet, but
I can remotely access my EC2 box for my programming and
sysadmin work, which works in my situation.<br>
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<div>For those unwilling to go that far, Lubuntu is a great way
to enjoy Ubuntu's stable package management without being
subjected to whatever bloated dead-end mess they're serving up
for a GUI of the week.</div>
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href="http://www.swarmstrategies.com/matt" target="_blank">Matt
Parrott</a> · (317) 324-8282 · Skype: matt.parrott</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Chick
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Are any of the rest of you concerned about Mir?<br>
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