X.org and XFree86 Reform

Posted by michael on Friday January 23, 2004 @02:01AM 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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Quick name change by Papa+Legba · 2004-01-23 02:21 · 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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Papa Legba come and open the gate
I already saw this coming by HAJS · 2004-01-23 03:09 · Score: 5, Funny

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