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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. Excellent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    Drop the network transparency, make it run framebuffer and XFree is obsolete on desktop.

  2. Re:That's nice, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You sure it didn't say "surrender!" ?

  3. Incredible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    hehe u r teh fp ghey kingh

  4. Um ... by Chromodromic · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're an idiot.

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  5. Re:We plan to. by lederhosen · · Score: 0, Troll

    We have no oil, take our neighbours instead...

  6. obligatory French reference... by The+Lynxpro · · Score: 0, Troll

    Going to war without France is like playing videogames on your Xbox without your Xouvert...

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