
then need to be a Unix kernel guru, in addition to a graphics software devel
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oper. To remain a competent Unix kernel guru, one would have to forgo
much interest in the graphics aspects of the X server. Thus, the X server would
suffer.
How did the two camps resolve their differences? The system itself did it
for them. After an apparently successful attempt to implant the X server into
the kernel, testers discovered that a bug in the server would cause not only the
window system to crash, but the entire operating system as well. Since a sys
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tem crash is considered even less desirable than an X server crash, most X
server implementations today reside ...