Andy Sy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Slackware 10 and many other distros you will see that > they have switched over to using X.org's distribution of > X11 (based on XFree86 4.4.0rc2) instead of the one from > Xfree86. > > It seems that the XFree organization has been alienating > people left and right ever since they booted out Keith > Packard last year. >
Not to mention the licensing issues ;) Even debian-devel's having a brawl on this (I don't think it's gotta do with the licensing though). The flames there are really burning... > The future of the Linux desktop and X seems to be in the > hands of the freedesktop.org people now. Turns out > there's lots of exciting new technology being done there: > Glitz, CairoGraphics, etc... > Yeah, even true transparency. Its one of the things WinXP has over XFree86, the lack of subtle eye-candy that doesn't have cholesterol... > Considering Longhorn's Avalon is still 3 years away, it > looks Linux may indeed have a fighting chance in the GUI > department. (Keith Packard's essays on keithp.com are a > /must read/ for anyone interested in future *nix GUI > technologies) > Then let's start contributing! :D 3 years is such a short time, and I think that part's always against us. Let's make the best of it while they're in limbo! > The fact that there is now a kind of a fork may not be > welcome news but I wonder how many capable hackers are > really still left in XFree86. > > Reading up on the history of XFree vs. Keith Packard, I > find completely ridiculous how someone (David Wexelblat) > who says he doesn't use X anymore is on the XFree86 'Core > team'. Apparently, XFree has finally disbanded this > 'Core Team'. I wonder if there's any chance of these people > rejoining their efforts... or may be anyone who's anyone > will just be joining the freedesktop.org efforts. > > Does anyone also know X.org's efforts relate to freedesktop.org's? > Will the freedesktop.org people be maintaining and releasing new > versions of the Xorg server? > I believe they do. But it still is experimental and requires X.org's source. Cheers, Zakame -- |=-------------ZAK B. ELEP (Registered Linux User #327585)-------------=| || Web: http://zakame.spunge.org GPG ID: 0xFA53851D || || http://zakame.homelinux.org ICQ UIN: 33236644 || || Location: Daet, Camarines Norte Running Linux 2.6 || |=----------1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D----------=| Debian - When you've got better things to do than to fix a borken system
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