From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 21:08:20 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 3837816A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:08:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao07.cox.net (lakemtao07.cox.net [68.1.17.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B1B43FCB for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:08:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com) Received: from fortytwo ([68.109.49.234]) by lakemtao07.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with SMTP id <20031113050816.MJFF4890.lakemtao07.cox.net@fortytwo>; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:08:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 23:07:05 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox To: Vulpes Velox Message-Id: <20031112230705.19301e60.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> In-Reply-To: <20031112150201.49789572.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> References: <20031112184850.0f752d52.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <20031112150201.49789572.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 05:08:20 -0000 On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:02:01 -0600 Vulpes Velox wrote: > > I personally doubt that this new xserver will amount to much. Especially given > a major lack of drivers. It could possibly be interesting, but I don't see > them really going any where fast or at all. I also get the feeling that they > will probally want to try to be linux centric with it. I personally think a > module for doing stuff like that would be much more fesable. But from what I > have heard getting stuff commited to the XFree86 project is a prob. What could > be done is to take the current XFree86 code and put it in a enviroment where > things can be more easily added. This would probally be much better since it > would not mean writing things from scratch and all ready have a nice amount of > drivers to pull from. Whoops, my bad... accidentally got this confused with one of the other projects going on... Yeah, this is one of the few X projects going on that looks like it actually has possible potential. Any ways, sorry for that bit and any confusion it cuased.