XFree86 4.3.0 Released

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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You should be in marketing

[bonch]

I am a happy Windows user.

Since this is a story about Windows, all of the pre-programmed Slashbots are going to trot out and declare that Windows is broken, old, badly designed, missing features, whatever.

Meanwhile, the Windows team continues, release after release, to pound out great code that addresses all of the shortcomings people tend to cite. Faster direct rendering? Check. Anti-aliased text? Check. Multi-head? Check. Video extensions? Check. 3-D? Check.

Do you see a pattern here? Windows is versatile. Windows is extensible. Windows is the industry standard--all commercial GUI programs use it.

And as always, Windows's killer feature is its application base. No "desktop-on-top-of-a-window-manager-on-top-of-a-ro ot-window" nonsense like you have to do on other platforms. Today I had the windows of programs from no less than three different commercial applications running on my desktop. Productively. Lots of Windows users do this every day, usually without even thinking about it.

Perhaps someday the tired old "Windows is obsolete and must be replaced" will finally cease. But today is probably not that day. Let the flames begin. I will ignore them and continue to praise the Windows developers for another job well done.

Re:Radeon ?

[GeekDork]

I just resisted the urge to mod this as funny.

Having an ATI card myself (a Radeon 8500), 3D support in X still seems like a faraway place. ATI is restrictive as hell with what GL extensions should be presented by the opensource driver, those suckers at Via hug their shitty little texture compression algorithm and the ATI drivers failed on video overlay in every version I tried.

If you want 3D support in X, buy nVidia.