AARRGGHH X11/NeWS AARRGGHH

[Eric Wines]

In article <3406 at brazos.Rice.edu> canon!smith at nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (Mark Smith) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 209, message 2 of 14
>
>I can't stand it. Back in the summer, we saw the X11/NeWS Beta release

You're not the only one who can't stand it!


>running at Sun here in the UK. It looked to be ready Real-Soon-Now. At the
>time, we understood that FCS was expected sometime in September. Here it
>is, the end of November, and we keep hearing how it's delayed here, it's
>on hold in the U.S., etc. etc. Meanwhile, messages show up on the net
>which suggest some people actually have it in their hands. Does anyone
>know what's really happening? I'll take semi-substantiated rumours at this
>point.

The package is slow.  It's also quite buggy, and quite disapointing.  I am
only commenting the X11 side, as that's what we mainly use.  Big, blatant
bugs, bugs that make the machine unuseable. Did they test this?

fozzy at caen.engin.umich.edu