#1 use the Linux frame buffer

[Anonymous]

The only way Linux will win on the desktop is if the GUI
uses the frame buffer. The old X windows is too clunky
and hard to configure for the regular user at home. They
dont want to or know how to configure X. They need a
GUI that just runs when they turn the system on, no
Server or Client setup. Plus X was designed to run
accross networks and that is not the case for a
dedicated desktop machine. Make it fast and easy to
configure or the public wont use it.

[Ben Cummings]

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Network transparency most certainly *is* something that
should be available in your computing enviroment. It makes
no sense to have to use one enviroment in one place, and be
forced to use another enviroment in another place (such as
having a home and a work PC). Network transparency, or at
least the easy aquisition, utilization, and modification of
remote resources is quite important, especially as broadband
reaches more and more customers.

That's not to say the project shouldn't use the framebuffer
(at least optionally), but network transparency should be a
concern to be dealt with one way or the other.

Having said that, i'd like to see this on Linux (i might
even consider developing for it), and if fb is the only way
it'll get here, then fb it is!