Archive 31. December 2003

XFree86 Core Team Dissolves

I'm curious to see what kind of model this will turn out to be. Although I'd really like to finally have a usable alternative to X11 - X11 is simply a rather gruesome construction in places. A solution like Mac OS X would be good: a new, native GUI with a workable model and a well-integrated X11 server for old applications.

Because let's be honest: the mess of GUI toolkits that arose from the fact that X11 was designed to be toolkit-neutral and doesn't prefer any one of them is one of the big handicaps for Unix on the desktop. And no, KDE or Gnome aren't really a complete answer to that, because they disguise the problems of the base technology but don't really solve them.

That would be something for 2004: finally develop a usable GUI for Unix. Does anyone still need a good New Year's resolution?

At heise online news there's the original article.

An oversized fan book devours the doctors

A book about the doctors. Hopefully it doesn't go to their heads - 3 kilos of paper in the noggin would certainly be detrimental to the texts in the long run

At Telepolis News you can find the original article.

mindlube software / developer / revclips - CLIPS as a plugin for Revolution - Expert system technology within a GUI development toolkit

Knighthood for Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee

Is Sir Berners-Lee now the Knight of Sad Countenance in the face of commercialization, absurd non-Web techniques, browser incompatibilities, control attempts by large companies, control attempts by politicians, and the absolute garbage that's cluttering the Web? Don Quixote de la Berners-Lee?

At heise online news there's the original article.

Runtime Revolution - User-Centric Software Development - Another Hypercard "clone" - this one, however, is cross-platform