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Cygwin/XFree86 Leaving XFree86.org

Posted by simoniker on from the oh-the-shenanigans dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Cygwin/XFree86 project is leaving XFree86.org. For those that don't know, Cygwin/XFree86 is a port of the X Window System to Cygwin (which provides a *nix-like API on Windows). Here is the announcement and the start of the trouble. The XFree86 project has pushed away more developers than most projects ever have - is this the beginning of the end for XFree86?"

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  1. configuration nightmare by clustercrasher · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    After spending 6 hours at a Linux Install Fest with 2 Linux guru's, my dual monitor is limping along 800x600. Windows config took 15 minutes. What good is great software if the bar for entry is too high? Perhaps it is just Debian. I did have more luck with RedHat. I guess it is another 6 hours for me. Argh. The good news is the echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep worked. Linux is still the best server O/S. Hardware device and applications will probably always lag on Linux.

  2. The good replacement by einux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    check out www.fresco.org it seems like _the_ replacement - and it also seems they could use some more develpers....

  3. Re:"is this the beginning of the end for XFree86?" by kfg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "kung fu guru?"

    Actually, that works too. :)

    KFG

  4. Re:Harry's right... by Theatetus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who else is black? I've seen Cassio and Iago played by black actors in different productions, but Othello is the only one specifically referred to as Moorish AFAIK.

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  5. Re:Harry's right... by Dave2+Wickham · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nah, sounds like Othello to me...

  6. New UNIX GUI by ModernGeek · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I think it is time we make a more userfriendly, windowmanager-specific GUI for Linux/FreeBSD/etc. Make a unified interface for linux and other derivatives, then see if it is accepted. Make it like windows where all you see the whole time is the user interface, to make it better for the desktop world, some say that choice is good, and the ability to run programs remotely is good, but now days for the average desktop user, this is not very practical, and choice is becoming randomness since there is no standard user interface guideline for Linux. Lets make someone like MacOS X for x86, but based on Linux: fast, easy, etc. I could help with UI development, etc if anyone is interested in starting a project, I'm not much for coding though. Linux needs somthing original.

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