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From: David Hogan dhog@lor...
Subject: X11
Date: Sat,  3 May 1997 04:58:10 +1000

> From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@fra...>

>     From: Nigel Roles <ngr@sym...>

>     Sounds fine, so long as it isn't compulsory to run it.....

Nobody's forcing you to run anything.

> i can't imagine why the x proponents would want to run all those horrible
> x programs.  plan 9 doesn't have or need x.  it's a _feature_.

I agree that X is horrible, but it is still useful to be
able to run X programs (netscape in particular).  Ok, so
netscape is horrible too, but it's ``one of those programs
that you hate, but have to run''.

Until the world realizes that Plan 9 is the Uber Operating
System, and ports all the useful applications to it (or writes
Plan 9 replacements which are much, much better), it will be
useful to be able to run an X server under Plan 9.