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First Xouvert Milestone Released

Posted by timothy on from the will-it-rock-your-world dept.

An anonymous reader writes " The first milestone of xouvert, the X-server replacement has been released. Xouvert includes MAS giving the X server its very own sound server. Nice. :) Also, just noticed that enlightenment quietly released an update to the 0.16 series. " (Here's a link to the Xouvert download page.)

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  1. Re:Xouvert is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    While you are right in the literal translation, did you think about RTFA ?

    As you see, Xouvert is the Goddess of Open Windows (amongst other things)

  2. Re:Xouvert is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Jeez, what an excellent name.

    It's sure to convert non-*nux users to the cause. :-|

  3. Re:sounds nice by popeyethesailor · · Score: 4, Funny

    I cant believe they dont have a web browser and email client in it yet.

  4. MAS, networked sound ?!?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    sound *server*.. (esound/nas) ?
    why not use alsalib or libaudiofile?
    can anyone tell me what network-transparent sound is going to offer me besides bloat?
    I mean, I just want sound to be played *fast*. Why would anyone in Tokio need to play sound on my desktop in Swahili.

    pleaz. just gimme STANDARDIZED FAST LOCAL sound. I have other apps for downloading, and a desktop needs no networked sound gook.

  5. Re:Xouvert is... by mirko · · Score: 1, Funny

    What ? this would not mean "Xorgreen" ?

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  6. Re:One of the most important things here by evilviper · · Score: 5, Funny
    long patch intergration times, and close control by the steering group. I am greatly looking forward to seeing a true open source methodolgy accelerate development.

    Yeah, me too. I always hated how mostly stable XFree86 is, and how I don't have to upgrade every week to the lastest version. Thank goodness someone figured out a solution to that problem!
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  7. Re:sounds nice by boaworm · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am really happy that MAS in Xouvert now

    Now they just have to rename the project to XMas and everyone will be happy :-)

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  8. Re:The things people complain about X... by Elbelow · · Score: 1, Funny

    X is good, but, it still lacks a lot of features that make it unsuitable for the desktop.

    I'd have thought that would be a good thing :-).

  9. Re:Xouvert is... by sharkey · · Score: 3, Funny
    did you think about RTFA ?

    Just what blog do you think this is?

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  10. Re:One of the most important things here by sharkey · · Score: 3, Funny
    I always hated how mostly stable XFree86 is, and how I don't have to upgrade every week to the lastest version. Thank goodness someone figured out a solution to that problem!

    Choice is good, here's another alternative.

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  11. Re:One of the most important things here by kidlinux · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I always hated how mostly stable XFree86 is, and how I don't have to upgrade every week to the lastest version."

    On the same token, some people hate how bloody long it takes to add new features and drivers to X.

    And if Xouvert's development model was anything like the Linux Kernel's dev model, then we'd see fairly rapid development, with a very stable tree which has a good release frequency (not too slow, not too fast), and then a dev tree if someone wants to do a daily CVS build. That'd be pretty good.

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  12. X-MAS by Tin+Foil+Hat · · Score: 3, Funny

    Xouvert includes MAS giving the X server its very own sound server.

    Just in time for X-MAS. How convenient.

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  13. Re:X is not bloated! by Brandybuck · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe you should go write your own X toolkit...

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