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The XFree86 Fork() Saga Continues

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the more-details dept.

Mortimer.CA writes "An article up on OSNews about the XFree story mentioned earlier. Included is: replacing fontconfig with Sun's stsf; XFree86 co-founder David Wexelblat saying that XFree is today obsolete and should be changed; Keith Packard replying, and more."

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  1. fork(), not Fork() by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    fork(), you mean.

  2. The link's bad. by kwiqsilver · · Score: 2, Funny

    From the slashdot.org 'Post Comment' page:
    (Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!)

  3. I'm waiting for episode 2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Attack of the Spoons

  4. Obligatory star wars post: (karma scharma!) by madmarcel · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't help myself...

    "The saga continues..."

    "Use the fork() David"

    (BTW, expect to bring about introduction of new post-rating: +5 Lame! ;^)

  5. Re:XFree Obsolete? by Omega · · Score: 5, Funny
    its only using some network transparent model optimized for terminals on a mainframe....

    Psssshht! I mean really! Who wants to setup a thin-client model at their business anyway? I mean saving millions of dollars? What's up with that?!

    and it has ugly ass fonts....

    Damn straight! Anyone who has zero knowledge about X knows that the fonts are hard coded into the display manager. And that there's no way you can add new fonts to it.

    and it has shit write to hardware through TCP ports...

    Like, I'm saying, yo! There ain't no client/server interface. When you be sending them X packets to the other computer, you're talking directly to the hardware! That's why every X command is "add ax,bx" and sh*t like that! It's pure assembly, bro!

    Everyone knows that the only way to do it is to build a gigantic motherf*cking graphics subsystem into the kernel so that your system resources are halved and your OS crashes every week. Like, that's the ONLY way it should be.

  6. Re:fork() power by SN74S181 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... to make sure *NIX doesn't fall behind in the OS game. ...tumbleweeds waft through the view. The lonely wail of a coyote is heard, off in the distance....

  7. Heh...nice title... by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 3, Funny

    all I could picture was "The Swedish (chef) Programmer" saying:

    Ya booor skay, ska boo ske-deeke-skeee Fork()!Fork()!Fork()!
    .

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  8. Re:Bad Link by lastninja · · Score: 3, Funny

    as long as it isn't $EDITOR im fine. don't want to start any flamewars between Emacs and Vi.

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  9. Re:You know what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Congratulations! You've just described every human undertaking ever!.

  10. Re:STSF Looks Pretty Cool by Lu+Xun · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes those are some damn fine clocks. Why bother with xfree at all?

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