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The Next XFree86 Wars: XFT2 vs STSF

Posted by Hemos on Friday March 28, 2003 @06:52AM from the the-war-goes-on dept.

NoSun writes "Sun's latest project is to create a font library for XFree86, named Stsf, that would replace Fontconfig and Xft2. But the big question is: Does the world need yet another X font library that would create more incompatibility and fragmentation? Well known Gnome and GTK+ developers are against this (yet another) X font library which just re-invents the wheel one more time with the result of slowing down KDE and Gnome in the desktop race. "

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Re:Still inferior by DShard · 2003-03-28 07:03 · Score: 0, Troll

Needless to say, better or not it suffers from not invented here syndrome. Simply put I hate Sun and all their software products because they have REPEATABLY shown themselves to be the microsoft of unix-land.
Though if you take software off the table they do have some of the most interesting and exciting hardware around. Although I will never be able to afford any new UltraSparc, sigh.