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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. Bad Link by chrisseaton · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I know I should RTFA before posting, but the link points to http://slashdot.org/TheXFree86Fork()SagaContinues, and that can't be right.

  2. 404 by Tribbin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hmm, bad link

    http://slashdot.org/TheXFree86Fork()SagaContinue s

    404 File Not Found
    The requested URL (TheXFree86Fork()SagaContinues) was not found.

    If you feel like it, mail the url, and where ya came from to pater@slashdot.org.

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  3. Real Link by creative_name · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here is the real link to the article on OSNews

    Link

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  4. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3090 by Bytal · · Score: 0, Redundant

    correct link

  5. Correct link by dark-br · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The correct link for the article is here

  6. Wexelblat is right, network transparency pointless by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 0, Redundant
    To 99% of the X audience, X's network transparency is meaningless. Wexelblat is correct to state (in a repsonse in the thread) that the X folks have optimized for the outlier case - the 1% of people who like the transparency features - instead of focusing on the core majority who don't need it now or ever.

    Removing network transparency would go a long way to making X (or whatever else replaces it) much more lightweight.