Y Window System Project Started 512
cuppm writes "Y, Mark Thomas's final year project for his masters degree, is back in active development (outlined here). Here is the email I received: '...Y development is about to start up again. If you are interested in participating, the website is at: http://www.y-windows.org/. There are links to mailing lists there, and you can download the latest development snapshot, which should compile this time :o). I apologise if I did not respond to your email personally. I was on holiday in Japan when the story broke, and by the time I got back I had over 80 emails about the subject, many of them in depth. If you had specific points that you'd like to raise, I suggest re-raising them on the y-devel mailing list.' So for all those who think it's time for a X replacement, here's your shot. And for those X lovers, use Y's extensibility to make it X compatible." See our previous story for more background.
Why Windows? (Score:5, Funny)
Proper nomenclature (Score:2, Funny)
Amazing.... (Score:5, Funny)
Stuff (Score:3, Funny)
(aahhadabahahah why windows)
Re:At long last! (Score:2, Funny)
Y not? (Score:-1, Funny)
Y don't we do it in the road.
Y you gotta treat me so bad?
Y ask Y?
Yre = Pink Flag = r0x0r
Who's that ugly country singer? Ynnona?
Who's that hot, crazy actress? Ynona.
Yse makes potato chips.
Roberts Yse is a Hollywood hotshot.
Many Catholic priests get tingly thinking about the YMCA.
Y didn't I stop typing long ago so I could get firszt poszt?
HotYre a car if it has a New Mexican drunkbox in it...
no (Score:2, Funny)
The XFree consortium already has this (Score:5, Funny)
So basically it's "Y-XFree86", right? There might be prior art here, I've heard people say that for years.
Re:Women's Windows (Score:4, Funny)
If it had been called "Y Don't You Do The Dishes, Bitch" then we might be laughing with you, and not at.
HTH -- ~Darl
Countdown (Score:5, Funny)
Quickly followed by a name change to "Y-windash".
Re:Women's Windows (Score:3, Funny)
find / -name *base* -exec chown us:us {} \; su -c someone 'export UP_US=thebomb' for f in great justice ; do sed -e 's/zig//g'
Re:Women's Windows (Score:2, Funny)
Don't worry, most women he sees on the net are XXX probably, so he wouldn't know anyway.
Re:Stuff (Score:1, Funny)
Yawn.... (Score:5, Funny)
Y's installed (who's on first?) (Score:3, Funny)
2: No. Y.
1: I was just wondering, what do you use?
2: Y!
1: I'm just curious, now will you please tell me what you use if you don't use X?
2: Y!
ok, that was sorta lame, how about...
tech Support: What desktop environment do you use?
user: ummm why?
tech: You use Y? Ok, so what you wanna do is...
user: What? I don't know what you're talking about.
Open Source? (Score:1, Funny)
> from their open source friends
Um, you do mean free software friends right?
Re:Y not? (Score:2, Funny)
Y? Because we LIKE you! M-O-U-S-E!
y windows (Score:2, Funny)
Sounds more like... (Score:5, Funny)
Abbot: Are you using X Windows?
Costello: No, Y
Abbot: I just want to know
Costello: Y
Abbot: Look, All I want to find out is what controls your display?
Costello:: I just told you?
Abbot: Told me what?
Costello:: No, "What" is the name of the window manager....
Abbot: I am not talking about the window manager!
Re:Stuff (Score:5, Funny)
Re:good idea but wrong reason (Score:5, Funny)
It should be more like a tiger-- going out and hunting down other code to kill.
name change suggestion... (Score:5, Funny)
CB
Re:At long last! (Score:5, Funny)
Simple, Y is One Better.
Just like my amplifier, which goes to 11.
Re:name change suggestion... (Score:4, Funny)
or it could be:
yinx (yinx is not x)
for added confusion!
CB
Re:Amazing.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Y's installed (who's on first?) (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why Windows? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Yawn.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Call to Programmers (Score:5, Funny)
Oblig (Score:5, Funny)
Skinner: Not the interrogative, but rather a windowing system with the unlikely name of "Y".
Chalmers: Well that's just great, Seymour. We've been out here six seconds and you've already managed to blow the routine.
[storms off, muttering] Sexless freak.
"Insight" (Score:2, Funny)
Shame on you, mods.
Re:What sort of compatibility? (Score:3, Funny)
Good to see those guys back together again. I wonder if "The Unix Hater's Handbook" will be as good as "Bridge Over Troubled Waters".
Re:About Y (Score:5, Funny)
Bah, those are the same people who designed the Death Star. Won't Y have the same design flaws?
Re:What sort of compatibility? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:About Y (Score:5, Funny)
Y?!? (Score:3, Funny)
: )
Re:Countdown (Score:2, Funny)
Re:My, aren't we opportunistic. (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, you mean kinda like a replacement?
Re:Stuff (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm...lemme give that a try.
C:\Documents and Settings\donutz>apt-get install w3m
'apt-get' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Oh well no fun for me
Re:good idea but wrong reason (Score:2, Funny)
Re:At long last! (Score:2, Funny)
I resent that the fact that something is over 10 years old is good enough reason to replace it. I'm over 10 years old.
what I want to know is ... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm also writing an X replacement. (Score:4, Funny)
Mine has a built-in web browser, MIME extractor, yEnc support and a display engine optimized for fleshtones.
I call it "The XXX Windowing System".
Re:The XFree consortium already has this (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oblig (Score:1, Funny)
Re:At long last! (Score:5, Funny)
Xfree86 is over 10 years old
And that means it shoud be scrapped? Win32 is also over 10 years old, do you think we should just scrap that too?!?
Oh, wait... point taken. I'm going to go download Y now.
Re:Stuff (Score:3, Funny)
Yes I have.
First, using Lynx as a web browser suffers from not giving me all of the marketing splash graphics and flash animations, pop up ads, midi background music; and leaving me with only the actual text content to focus on.
As for Slashdot specifically, the major problem with using lynx is that you get only the text of the discussion, but no goatse.cx graphics.
The implementation language... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:About Y (Score:2, Funny)
now about this Network Transparency thing...
Well, true.... (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, I've yet to find any piece of software that manages to stay intact when I fire a photon torpedo at it.
Re:Stuff (Score:3, Funny)
You can say that again. ;-)
Re:Why Windows? (Score:3, Funny)
Instead, I propose we use... (Score:2, Funny)
If you can't join 'em, beat 'em (Score:2, Funny)
As I walk alone I wonder what went wrong
With our love a love that was so strong
And as I still walk on I think of
The things we've done together
While our hearts were young
I'm walking in the rain
Tears are falling and I feel the pain
Wishing you were here by me
To end this misery and I wonder
I won-won-won-won wonder
Why why why why why why she ran away
And I wonder where she will stay
My little runaway run-run-run-run runaway
I'm walking in the rain
Tears are falling and I feel the pain
Wishing you were here by me
To end this mesery and I wonder
I won-won-won-won wonder
Why why why why why why she ran away
And I wonder where she will stay
My little runaway run-run-run-run runaway
Run run run run runaway.....