[forum] Future of X ?

[Sven Luther]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:56:59PM -0500, georgina o economou wrote:
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> From: forum@XFree86.Org
> Date: Thursday, March 20, 2003 11:35:04 AM
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> Subject: Re: [forum] Future of X ?
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> Apologies in advance,
> I'm relatively new to the Linux world and the last time I used X heavily
> was a long time ago on DecStations. Thus I'm not going to give you
> a long technical post today, although becoming more involved in the guts
> of the system may be an option in the future.
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> For now, I thought I'd put out a few things to think about,
> from the useland point of view:
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> 1) Many Linux distros (and even more users) are running a less than current
> version of Xfree. If more developers are being looked at, tasking some of
> them
> to look after whatever version is the commonly installed version (when it is
> 
> not the latest and greatest) could be a boon, both for users and the
> perception of Xfree itself.
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> 2) Not to be offensive about it, but the closed (and rather aloof) nature
> of the Xfree dev process is a direct result of the lack of competition.
> Linux kernel is wide open and faster moving because if it wasn't, *BSD
> might well leave it looking foolish. Philosophically, some might wish a
> plague of competition on your house to force you to be more open, but I
> am here commenting in the hope that this can happen in a less Darwinian 
> manner.
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> 3) A short list of things Xfree needs. Keep in mind tha I run Debian stable
> mostly, so you might have fixed some of these already, don't attack me for
> that, muse instead on point 1.
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> What happened to Branden Robinson?  I thought he ran Debian stable branch?

Debian stable (woody), released in july last year runs XFree86 4.1.0.
Debian unstable, the current developpment branch, runs XFree86 4.2.1.

Remember that debian has more architectures to support that xfree86 test
on linux, and that it is preferable to have a slightly older but stable
and bugfree X than the latest release, but having had less testing.

That said, there are 4.2.1 and 4.3.0 backports for woody and unstable available,
just not in the official archive.

Still wish you would do something about your quoting.

BTW, is this list subscriber only, so i can put it in my spam whitelist ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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> Georgina