Thom Holwerda has posted an interesting piece on the state of X11 development.

This particular passage made me smile:

> For such an important piece of software, this is not an ideal situation.

I am currently at the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Launch Seminar at CinemaxX, Fisketorvet, Copenhagen, Denmark. I’ve been here since 09:00 watching the Adobe evangelists presenting their new creations.

It is very impressive. Profoundly riveting. Neigh unbelieveable. They
have made many changes to their immense software line-up, and while none
of them are particularly earth-shattering, it is very impressive how
well they’ve managed to get everything working together coherently.

The new features demonstrated today are going to save armies of artists,