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XFree86 Core Team Disbands

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-news dept.

mumumu was among the many to write with this news: "XFree86's release engineer David Dawes has announced that "a majority of the XFree86 core team has voted in favour of my proposal to disband the core team". XFree86's News Headline has a short message about it. Why, all of a sudden? What is the successor of the XFree86? Xouvert? freedesktop.org?"

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  1. Re:Related to the Cygwin blowup? by aled · · Score: 0, Troll

    We all knew X is obsolete but not a century old. Anyone willing to move X11 into the 21 century? Someone? ;-)

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  2. Is that why... by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 1, Troll

    You say X doesn't suck, but then explain how it doesn't fully utilize graphics cards.

    X doesn't work. I hate dragging a simple window and have a trail of tutti-fruity after it, or waiting 5 seconds for a menu to popup. Here's the part where you blame the window manager, or the graphics library, or the desktop environment.

    XFree86 doesn't dare do a thing wrong. Hold on while we hack on yet another "extension," and then meanwhile in a Microsoft discussion complain that you can't hack on things that weren't in the core design of Windows.

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