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XFree86 10 Years Old

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the way-to-go-everyone dept.

ChazeFroy writes "XFree86 is now 10 years old. To quote from the page, 'What makes this particularly eventful is that it is fully backwards compatible; this is a true testament to the spirit of the original X protocol of which XFree86 is its finest implementation.'" Ten years and still binary compatible. Very cool.

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  1. Re:Much more importantly by Tribbin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Happy B-day :-)
    Where 's the cake?

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  2. in relation to rcs 1000's post.... by smallblackdog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You were talking about not going back to windows. How I wish that I could say the same thing. I've only been using linux for like, 1 year now, since I was 14. XFree86 is cool I use it a bit when trying to find my bearings. But I've been thinking recently why people don't want to move to linux. I've got this bloody Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem and for the life of me I can't get it working. My friend has the same problem. I got it set up once, then activated connection sharing then the modem went down.
    Its bcause there isn't enough well-explained newbie help and people feel like they're in the dark. This may sound trivial to the weekly kernel recompilers out there. All the howto's are great, if you allready have some knowledge of what the hell you are supposed to do. So, coming from windows 2000, where everything is done for you (it even wipes your ass with the next service pack release I hear) its pretty hard to just get stuff working.

    Shit, that didn't come out as it was laid out in my head but nevermind. This is probably gonna be offtopic too but I feel I needed to say something about it. Infact, just ignore this post. Why are you still reading?

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  3. Re:binary compatibility by ciryon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Very good point. I wish I some moderation points left. ;-)

  4. Re:interesting by Peter+Harris · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Well done man, getting modded as insightful for admitting that you have been asleep for 6 years ;)

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  5. Re:Nothing compared to mother nature by heathrow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do you even want to talk about your failures at breaking female simple encryption? Not like we're talking DES-3 or anything....

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  6. Re:Nothing compared to mother nature by kzinti · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Women encrypt with a one-time pad. Then they throw away the pad.

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