XFree86 Fork Gets a Name, Website

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XFree86 Fork Gets a Name, Website

Posted by michael on Sunday August 17, 2003 @05:15AM 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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Re:That's nice, but... by remahl · 2003-08-17 05:17 · Score: 1, Redundant

RTFA:
Zoo-vehrt
Re:That's nice, but... by gaj · 2003-08-17 05:21 · Score: 0, Redundant

I know this was a joke (or at least I hope so), but a quick click (i.e. RTFA) would have told you.
Xouvert is pronounced zoo-vert.
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Re:That's nice, but... by geeveees · 2003-08-17 05:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

RTFA ;)
Zoo-vehrt.

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Re:Excellent by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-17 05:23 · Score: 0, Redundant

That of course is a troll designed to hook all of the (still employed) Unix admin types.

However, X11's network transparency is just as creaky and obsolete as the rest of the beast. The security sucks, the configuration really fucking sucks, and the bandwidth and latency is just obscene when compared to Citrix Metaframe.

So, I'm tending to agree with the framebuffer trolls. X11 should drop network transparency at least until they can come with a solution that isn't so laughably obsolete.
Drop Network Transparancy , and drop X by nurb432 · 2003-08-17 05:48 · Score: 0, Redundant

With out that, its not X anylonger, and is pretty much braindead.

Framebuffer, sure that can be a nice optional feature, but you cant drop the network components or you kill it off.

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