{"id":2880,"date":"2010-11-21T16:38:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T21:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2024-07-16T11:18:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:18:19","slug":"life-after-x-window-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/21\/life-after-x-window-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Life After X [Window System]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/413335\/\">Jonathan Corbet<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/programming\/comments\/e70b6\/life_after_x\/\">Reddit<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/413335\/\"><p>But things have changed in the 25 years or so since work began on X. Back in 1985, Unix systems did not support shared libraries; if the user ran two applications linked to the same library, there would be two copies of that library in memory, which was a scarce resource in those days. So it made a lot of sense to put graphics code into a central server (X), where it could be shared among applications. We no longer need to do things that way; our systems have gotten much better at sharing code which appears in different address spaces.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Corbet (via Reddit): But things have changed in the 25 years or so since work began on X. Back in 1985, Unix systems did not support shared libraries; if the user ran two applications linked to the same library, there would be two copies of that library in memory, which was a scarce resource [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-07-16T15:18:22Z","apple_news_api_id":"713dc755-2123-44b4-9ebc-6117d5d2f796","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-07-16T15:18:23Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AcT3HVSEjRLSevGEX1dL3lg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2624],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-x-window-system"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}