Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 22:20:34 +1000 From: Matthew Gardiner <kaiwai@vfemail.net> To: Vulpes Velox <vvelox@vvelox.net> Cc: pfgshield-pedro@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Using xorg instead of XFree86 Message-ID: <BD0B9032.EB%kaiwai@vfemail.net> In-Reply-To: <20040702033227.45372158@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net>
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On 2/7/04 6:32 PM, "Vulpes Velox" <vvelox@vvelox.net> wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 16:36:56 +1000 > Matthew Gardiner <kaiwai@vfemail.net> wrote: > >> Ultimately XFree86 made their bed, they kicked everyone out and now >> they wonder why they're as popular as SCO in the OSS community. > > Actually it just appears to be some ppl in the linux community that > are just ticked about it... > > I'll personally wait and see how it goes. I personally doubt any real > clear winner comes out from etiher side and this pointless bickering > will be continued by ppl with nothing better to do... Its basically a full gone conclusion, look at the organisations supporting XFree86 vs. Xorg, look at the development tree's etc. etc. Xorg is moving forward whilst XFree86 has basically remained static. I think the bigger one will be the OpenGL accelerated Xserver being developed by Keith Packard. Matty
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