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XFree86 3.9.18 Today, v4.0 in March

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the take-awhile-to-compile dept.

John Fulmer writes, "The fourth and final beta of XFree86 3.9.x has been released and up on their ftp site. From the announcement: 'This snapshot version is 3.9.18. We are planning to release 4.0 in early March 2000.' You can download (source only) from here. "

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  1. Really, Freshmeat / Slashdot crossover is OK. by Poe · · Score: 5

    Slashdot = News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
    Freshmeat = New cool open source related software.
    Not all of the new software is news, not all of the news is related to new software. But having the crossover in both places is good. Anyone who actually reads freshmeat can tell you, it's easy to let an important program get lost in the shuffle. There are now rougly 60 new items on freshmeat daily. As someone who reads both, I am glad to have the redundancy.

    I'm so excited about XFree86 4.0 any new info should be written on the moon and stars. As I understand it, this will be a quantum leap forward in Gaming, Graphics and usability for Linux. Goodness knows we could use it.

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  2. Re:One step closer to 3D in Linux (FBSD?) by bbk · · Score: 5

    As of now, Precision insight is working on DRI for 3dfx and ATI 128 cards, for inclusion in XF86 4.

    The Utah GLX project has working under the XF85 3.3.X series writing drivers for Matrox, ATI Rage, S3 Virge, Nvidia, and i810 cards, outside the DRI framework. These will need to be converted to DRI to be included XFree86 4.

    As far as FreeBSD goes, the new module loader will allow you to run the same of XF86 4 module on any OS, as long as it uses the same processor. So x86 Linux modules will run on FreeBSD without a recompile. Pretty cool huh!