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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. Re:Bad Link by Cpt_Kirks · · Score: 0, Troll

    Shouldn't that be "when EDITORS are dumb"?

  2. Re:Could this be it? by Brian+Knotts · · Score: 0, Troll
    If you want a crappy, non-portable, inflexible, unstable OS, why not just run Windows?

    I don't see any "responsiveness" problem in XFree. But, I'm not using it to play games.