On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 09:03:04 -0700
Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:

> Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandroselli@???):
>
>> 1) they did not work (a lot of the times);
>
> That was not true in my long and varied experience.

This was true in thousands of other people's experience.

> (I have run installfests for eight or nine Linux and BSD
> user groups in the San Francisco Bay Area from the middle 1990s to the
> present day.)

Oh yeah, and Kudzu was great, and devfs was the best virtual device
filesystem ever...

>> 2) Xorg self-configuration works (most of the times).
>
> This cannot be true, as this is before Xorg existed.

Did I write: "XFree86 self-configuration works (most of the times)"?
No, I wrote: "Xorg self-configuration works (most of the times)".
XFree86 configuration was static, messy and fragile. One of the best
improvement on it by Xorg is the latter's capability to self-configure
reliably. You cannot deny this by stating that in XFree86 times Xorg did not
exit. It's like stating that the Airbus 380 navigation system cannot be said
to be better than the A300's because the A380 is equipped with a GNSS which
did not exist on the A300.


Alessandro