Re: X and other visions

[Marcus Brinkmann]

At Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:00:26 +0200,
azeem wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 01:51:07PM +0200, "Sören Schulze" wrote:
> > GNU/Linux:
> [...]
>  
> > Example:
> > Every Desktop Environment has its own handling of virtual file systems  
> > (which will become redundant in the Hurd) and URL openings (would be  
> > done by something like httpfs in the Hurd).
> > Though these are not even things that are DE-specific. They would be  
> > also useful for other software - even text-based.
> 
> Note that Desktop Environments such as GNOME are not Linux specific.
> GNOME runs (and is well supported by Sun) on Solaris, for example. Of
> course, GNU/Hurd might have a better implementation of virtual file
> systems as Linux, but nevertheless you need a platform-independant
> fallback if you're running on something else than GNU.

In fact, I heard a rumor that GNOME is going away from POSIX file
semantics to something self-knitted.
 
Oh well.  I guess people who are happy about glib like such things.

Thanks,
Marcus