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X.org and XFree86 Reform

Posted by michael on from the shifting-sands dept.

albepetr writes "NewsForge is reporting about a press conference held today at LinuxWorld 2004 in New York, where some members of the X Consortium, XFree86, and freedesktop.org announced that X.org and XFree86 have merged. They claim that the reformed group will be working together to bring "not just more eye candy but new functionality" to the X Window Manager for Linux and Unix." Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN. Update: 01/23 18:06 GMT by M : XFree86.org denies the story. I think a more accurate description of the event might be something like, "XFree86 core developers leave XFree86, join X.org, remaining people of XFree86 are peeved".

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  1. Quick name change by Papa+Legba · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now would be the time to strike on a new name change for the system. Since we have two X groups joining and it a new X orginization. I suggest they rename it to "XXX Windows System". I would bet they would see there number of downloads skyrocket.

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  2. this is a step towards the... by rogabean · · Score: 0, Funny

    ...Year that Linux takes the Desktop...

    wait wasn't that last year? the year before? hehe

    But seriously though, I see this is a very good move on the part of both projects.

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  3. I already saw this coming by HAJS · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is absolutely clear why the XFree86 team-members joined the X-Consortium:
    They wanted this cool x.org mail-adress

  4. Re:Hopefully (IDEA!) by gosand · · Score: 3, Funny
    This has nothing to do with X and has everything to do with a long standing bug in Mozilla, which fails to use the X clipboard correctly.

    Dammit! Why can't the browser just be integrated into the OS?

    *ducks*

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  5. Re:Hopefully... by freeweed · · Score: 2, Funny

    a long standing bug in Mozilla, which fails to use the X clipboard correctly...you'll need to copy/paste to stop bugzilla being Slashdotted

    But I'm using Mozilla on X, you insensitive clod!

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