Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!udel!brahms.udel.edu!gdtltr From: gdtltr@brahms.udel.edu (gdtltr@limbo.org (The Befuddled One)) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: X on Minix Message-ID: <21857@brahms.udel.edu> Date: 2 Jun 91 19:46:48 GMT References: <4132@island.COM> Organization: Your Organization Could Be Here! Lines: 28 In article awb@ed.ac.uk (Alan W Black) writes: => =>> Is this a stupid question (the answer is obvious)? => =>No I don't think its a stupid question, and the answer isn't very =>obvious, it was one of my early questions about Minix. => =>However, I now think that X is the wrong way to go for Minix. I do =>think Minix should get some form of window system but X is just too =>big. David Bell's mini-x looks like a possible alternative, it is =>small and X-like but doesn't require so many resources to install or =>run. The MGR window system is another alternative which looks =>promising. => I wonder if the windowing system originally designed for Amoeba could be made to work on 386/68K Minix? Gary Duzan Time Lord Third Regeneration -- gdtltr@brahms.udel.edu _o_ ---------------------- _o_ [|o o|] To be is to be networked. [|o o|] |_o_| Disclaimer: I have no idea what I am talking about. |_o_|