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XFree86 Enters Wondrous World Of CVS

Posted by Hemos on from the tomorrow---walgreens! dept.

Quite a number of people have written with news from the USENIX annual technical conference. The news? The Xfree86 [?] folks have announced that XFree86 will now have CVS access.

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  1. Re:CVS maintenance by Khalid · · Score: 4

    Open Avenue is now the official CVS maintainer ! they have recently bought Cyclic and promised to integrate many patchs floating around and develop CVS activly. They have even hired someone didacted entirely to this job.

    Have a look at the new CVS home at www.cvshome.org

  2. Re:Great by be-fan · · Score: 4

    No it is an unmitigated disaster. The idea is that new features that can be server side, should be server side. It lowers memory usage (only one copy of anti-aliasing font libraries), it increases performance (especially over a network) and it lets apps automatically take advantage of the feature. BeOS is integrating a new true-type razterizer from Bitstream called FontFusion. Becauese all programs depend on the OS for font support, all programs will automatically take advantage of this feature. This is very important, if you want to retain a good user experience. Also, the fact that it is hard to add anti-aliased fonts is indicative of a larger problem in the system. I find it mind-boggling that the MIT guys decided to let if be extensible from a window manager point of view, but made the imaging model hard to extend. (Of course I doubt they thought people would still use the software in the year 2000!)

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  3. just one question... by ywwg · · Score: 4

    I don't want to start a download of the entire tree just to get a little bit of info... namely, have they fixed dga mouse support yet? This question gets asked day-in and day-out on the newsgroups by all of us l33t gamerz who need a smoother mouse to play quake under linux.

    So, has it been fixed in CVS, or are you guys going to make me download it to find out? :P

  4. Xfree open process. by len(*jameson); · · Score: 5

    This is an important step for the Xfree project, however other critical events really need to occur to help this worthy project become more open. For example, what is their policy going to be on CVS commit access? The easiest way to seperate the OSS projects is on the openness of their CVS commit access granting policies.

    Just simple anonymous CVS access isn't going to make that huge a difference in the openness of the project.

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