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Author: Tomasz Kundera
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To: William Peckham
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Food for Thought? Wayland
Wayland is useless for me as it does not run over the network. It is a
crucial feature of X Windows.

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 6:01 PM William Peckham via Dng <dng@???>
wrote:

> I see XWindows/X.org as a wonderful project that diverged from the unix
> philosophy. It was a single application that had parts and features
> embedded to support MANY things that were not the purpose at all. I love
> it! Wayland is another X11 server providing the same core function, with
> new and cleaner code, without all the pieces that do not belong. One
> project that does the function very well, communicated with other
> applications, and has no cruft: more pure in the unix sense. Wayland is
> absolutely more in the unix philosophy!
>
> Possibly unwelcome for those who depend upon all the cruft.
>
> As for systems, it is 100% pure cruft with no redeeming features. It
> violates the unix philosophy, provides lots of points of failure, and
> additional security vulnerabilities. ( it works .. )
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Tomasz Kundera