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XFree86 Fork Gets a Name, Website

Posted by michael on from the politics dept.

Piethein Strengholt writes "Today the Xfree86 fork is a fact. A new project has started and is located at: xouvert.org. Xouvert has been started due to the corporate structure and the slow development of XFree86. They hope to reduce the risk to XFree86 of incorporating new drivers and features."

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  1. That's nice, but... by pongo000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...how the hell do you pronounce it?

    1. Re:That's nice, but... by pongo000 · · Score: 4, Funny

      To forestall all the RTFA comments:

      Yeah, I know how to pronounce it. But let's say I'm talking to a friend on the phone:

      "So, you really gotta check out Xouvert."
      "Zoo-what?"
      "Xouvert!"
      "How do you spell that?"
      "X-O-U-V-E-R-T"
      "Oh...wouldn've never guessed that on my own."

      Giving projects you wish to succeed names that invite misspelling isn't a very good idea.

    2. Re:That's nice, but... by rendermaniac · · Score: 2, Funny

      carefully?

    3. Re:That's nice, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Maybe we should ask the guy who barfed up "Touareg"

    4. Re:That's nice, but... by rjrjr · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, this has been a real nightmare for the Ganoo guys.

      rjrjr

    5. Re:That's nice, but... by fritter · · Score: 3, Funny

      Giving projects you wish to succeed names that invite misspelling isn't a very good idea.

      What do you mean? It worked great for Gigli!

    6. Re:That's nice, but... by boaworm · · Score: 2, Funny

      As long as there is a "CowboyNeal" option i'll use it!

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      Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
      Aristotele
    7. Re:That's nice, but... by Saint+Stephen · · Score: 4, Funny

      Color me obnoxious!

      I'm a lee-nuchs, Guh-nome, Gah-Noo man 150%. The whole thing is about freedom man.

      If they want to spell it "Raymond Luxury Yaught", but pronounce it "Throat-Warbler Mangrove", that's a-ok with me man.

      Now pass me that bong.

    8. Re:That's nice, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      "Throat-Warbler Mangrove"

      Throat.
      Warbler.
      Man Grove.

      Dude, I think you might want to make sure that it's actually just a bong that you are passed.

  2. Should be interesting. by FreeLinux · · Score: 2, Funny

    By doing release early, release often, we hope to reduce the risk to Xfree86 of incorporating new drivers and features.

    Translated: By doing release early, release often, we should be able to produce a window system that is buggy enough to rival Windows 95a.

  3. The Xouvert name by reynaert · · Score: 2, Funny
    What kind of a name is Xouvert?
    Xouvert is named after the ancient Babylonian goddess of open windows, wooden digging implements, and moonlight. A notorious ritual among the higher levels of Freemasonry has kept her memory alive until now. Xouvert, awake!
    Or maybe, just maybe, "ouvert" is the French word for "open". Bunch of wankers.
  4. What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "They hope to reduce the risk to XFree86 of incorporating new drivers and features" ????

    Idea dislexia? Are they really trying prevent new drivers and features?

    Heh, if that were the case, I suppose they could stop at their name change and say they're done:)

  5. Huh? by dorker · · Score: 1, Funny

    Reading the article title it sounds like the fork is named "website".

  6. French? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So would it be safe to say they are *overtly* trying to to draw a connection in the public's mind between the xouvert project and the Quebec separatists?

    Because that was my first thought, dunno about anyone else...

  7. Ouvert == Overt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I guess the only question left is can the French write code as well as they fight?

  8. We plan to. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    We plan to get out far more often. If I recall correctly, we are scheduled to invade ^h^h^h^h^h^h liberate Sweden in the later part of October. For far too long the people of Sweden have be living in an opressive society where they are forced to drive Volvos. The United States has heard the cries of the Swedish people and we will liberate you shortly, whether you like it or not.

    Prepare to be bombed, I mean freed.

  9. MOD PARENT DOWN!!! by yanestra · · Score: 1, Funny

    Parent author speaks French. That can't be good.

  10. Hacked? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This doesn't look right: if you go to the xouvert web page at www.xouvert.org and follow the link to their wiki at the bottom of the page, you're lead to http://xwin.org:9673/xwin/Xouvert which, uhm, to put it mildly, doesn't look much like a wiki.

  11. Re:First step: ditch IMake! by CaptnMArk · · Score: 2, Funny

    auto* are great when they work, but a PITA when trying to debug them without wearing the Ring of m4 +50 and Sword of Make, +50 bash damage :)

  12. Re:Xopen / Xhoover by Spunk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, or that it sucks.

  13. XFree86 Fork Gets a Name, Website, Girlfriend by greenhide · · Score: 2, Funny
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    Karma: Chevy Kavalierma.
  14. Re:For those who don't know... by bruthasj · · Score: 2, Funny

    French?! I thought we were renaming anything French into its American equivalent! Are we digressing?

    (j/k btw)

  15. American Name of Xouvert by euxneks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Due to the "french" nature of the name (ouvert means open in french) some Americans have decided to call the new X fork, Xfreedom.

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  16. Re:XO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    He never said it was, dickhead. He said "Crassandwiches", the bastardized American version, instead of what would be the more technically correct "Croissandwiches". Although I suppose you just call them Freedom Sandwiches now.