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XFree86 4.3.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the don't-have-to-turn-head-90-degrees-anymore dept.

Dunkalis writes "The latest version of XFree86, 4.3.0, has been released! Release notes here, mirrors here. Enhancements include drivers for newer Radeons, better PS/2 protocol detection, the XRandR extension, better font support, and more!" Source tarballs are available, or wait for your distribution to package them...

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  1. Great... by loucura! · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm going to have to endure ANOTHER 15 hour build of XFree when I go to emerge something innocuous...

    I REALLY need to remember emerge -p

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  2. well... by itallushrt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its about damn time. I mean what are these people just doing this in thier spare time or what? =)

  3. Another blown weekend.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man, I'll probably spend so much time compiling and configuring this weekend without graphics, I'll ony get to wank to ASCII art on the console....

    1. Re:Another blown weekend.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Consider yourself LUCKY. Back in my day, we didn't have ASCII. I had to wank to hexidecimal.

  4. Excellent! by Ignorant+Aardvark · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is excellently timed to the release of Nethack 3.4.1 - now I can play it in all of its black and white glory!

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  5. OS/2 binaries here by dryeo · · Score: 4, Funny

    ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/xfree86/4.3.0/

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    1. Re:OS/2 binaries here by Billly+Gates · · Score: 4, Funny
      All 8 of us are happy!

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  6. Re:and gentoo users.... by dolson · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since yesterday? You mean you got a head start yesterday. You'll still be emerging it when Debian Stable gets it. ;)

  7. Syntax Highlighting and Lisp in Xedit? by eGabriel · · Score: 4, Funny

    I never thought the day would come. Watch out, Gnome and KDE, Athena is coming back! Er. Maybe not.

    I thought maybe this was a joke... crazy.