Xfree86 4.2.0 Out

According to david_eliasson, Xfree86 v4.2.0 is out, but it'll probably be awhile before all the mirror sites have sycned up with the release, so you may want to just enjoy reading that changelog for a couple days before you bother getting the whole archive.

Comments

4.2.0, huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

So, who wants to smoke a bowl and celebrate?

Re:Replace X with what?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yo Mama...of course.
she has too much to display perhaps...I'm gonna need Xinerama.

Re:Moving away from X

[mythr]

I have a better question for you. Why not? It's not like Microsoft has ever hesitated to add useless features to their products. The flight simulator hidden in an old version of Excel is a perfect example of this.

Re:Radeon support

[Odinson]

Or just use an nVidia card. They provide full-featured, fast drivers that knock the socks off even the Windows drivers of ATI cards.

In the future they may even come with DRM build right in. Think instant compliance no effort or even choice on the Linux users part.

They may not be open source, but I'll take features, speed, and stability over source anyday (if you really want source, you can always use the nv driver, too).

Microsoft and nVidia on Xbox:
nVidia: "But we don't want to change the Linux PC drivers to include drm. This wasn't part of the deal."
Microsoft:"Pray I do not alter the deal any further."

Is anyone else getting the feeling that ATI and their helpful specs are all talk?

Now that is a good question AC.

Aditionally does anyone know what state the open source driver is in? Is it developed more quickly or more slowly becasue of it's closed counterpart.

Re:Drivers for my laptop!

[Bob The Cowboy]

I picked up a copy of the CVS version yesterday. I knew that as soon as I did that, a new version would come out..

Could you possibly download the CVS of Enlightenment 17?

;o)