From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 12:42:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89FE716A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:42:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from papagena.rockefeller.edu (papagena.rockefeller.edu [129.85.41.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E9BB43FBD for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:42:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@papagena.rockefeller.edu) Received: from papagena.rockefeller.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) hACKfgw1008959; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:41:42 -0500 Received: (from rsidd@localhost) by papagena.rockefeller.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id hACKfZ0k008957; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:41:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:41:35 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Bill Moran Message-ID: <20031112204135.GA8944@online.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Bill Moran , Miguel Mendez , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FB27B9E.2000902@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.20-20.9smp i686 cc: Miguel Mendez cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of X? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:42:47 -0000 Bill Moran wrote: >Miguel Mendez wrote: >> On the negative side, I don't think having 3 forks is that good >> (XFree86, Xouvert and this stuff). FWIW, the screenshots sure are >> pretty :) > >Isn't there another project trying to put together a replacement for >X? But the freedesktop.org stuff isn't a replacement of X, just further development of XFree86 in a new direction. It certainly looks good, and KeithP can deliver, he is the guy responsible for the antialiased font support in XFree86 today. This fork is probably because the XFree86 people chucked him out. Hopefully the "best fork" will win, as when the egcs people forked from gcc and eventually became the "new" gcc. Eric Anholt already announced that he's making a separate port of the X libraries from the freedesktop.org project, which will reduce compile time in upgrading etc; it sounds like that will also make it easier to replace the XFree86 X server with the fd.o ones, for people who want to play with it. As for "X-replacement" projects like Berlin/Fresco, I don't see the point. Rahul