[forum] thoughts

[Todd T. Fries]

I have wishes for the future of XFree86 that I believe I am incapable of
implementing; perhaps with some coaching and luck at finding free time may
change that, but suffice it to say I am responding to the call for future
desires of X.

Future direction I personally would like to see:

- lower memory footprint
- more optional modules/protocols
- grandfathering of old protocol support, perhaps via an 'old' module, to
  assist on the above
- more effort at bringing 'legacy' drivers from 3.3.6 to 4.x
- support for IPv6
- no change in license terms (free for all, including Keith to do his own
  thing)

I believe Keith Packard's kdrive does the first two (are there
_any_ plans to support IPv6 in X?).

I would like to thank everyone for their hard work on X that has brought
us to this point.   Without it, many of us may not even be interested in
UNIX as a desktop + server os.

Thanks for listening,
-- 
Todd Fries .. todd@fries.net


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