Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!snorkelwacker!ai-lab!gnu!dstailey From: dstailey@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Doug Stailey) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: X windows under MINIX Message-ID: <9809@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 9 Aug 90 23:28:34 GMT References: <1828@cs.rit.edu> Sender: news@wheaties.ai.mit.edu Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 11 In article <1828@cs.rit.edu> bxi8859@cs.rit.edu (Ingalls Bruce X) writes: >I have a '386, and would love to get an (affordable <$600) X windows system >Is XINU too dead to support X? Could I get GNU OS and GNU X (does that MIT's X windows is in the public domain, you don't need the Free Software Foundation for that. As for "GNU OS" Richard Stallman is still deciding on what to start with. First choice is CMU's Mach, if they can get all the AT&T code out of it in about 6 months. Second and third are MIT's TRIX, somewhat similar to old MINIX in that it is message passing and only compatible with version 7 UNIX and Berkeley's Sprite system which is like BSD + something like NSF.