xynth

> i feel likt there's likely more programmers who weren't aware of a 20yo (unfortunately) failed project At that time, what should replace X11 was a heavily discussed topic, so people who were already interested in programming under GNU/Linux at this time typically remember intense discussions on the internet about the pro-s and con-s of lots of proposals to replace X11. Proposals that I have in mind are: - Y Window System - Fresco: https://web.archive.org/web/20100729184325/http://fresco.org... - Xynth: https://github.com/alperakcan/xynth - Xfast: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xfast/ (here a German article about Xfast from 2008: https://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2008/11/ohne-x-tras/ ) - Mir (Ubuntu) as the main competitor to Wayland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(software) - Wayland - ... and very likely many, many more propo

So can we revive any of these also abandoned alternatives? * Tiny X (Still Xorg just barebones and faster) - https://github.com/tinycorelinux/tinyx * Xynth - https://github.com/alperakcan/xynth * Nano-X / MicroWindows - http://microwindows.org/ (Seems still active? Just needs some modern GUI ports.) * DirectFB (Needs modern driver support) - https://web.archive.org/web/20120118003245/http://www.direct... * SVGALib (Needs modern driver support) - https://github.com/akosela/svgalib * FBUI (Needs porting to modern kernels) - https://github.com/8l/fbui