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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. Debian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Debian needs to merge with a project that can keep its distro up to date. Oh wait why bother. Just use Fedora.

  2. Go for broke... by miketang16 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Get that Y guy to sign on as well... It seems to be a very promising project.

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  3. Heretical thoughts by visgoth · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Is X and all that it entails really necessary for the "average joe's grandma's" desktop? I'm betting the people who use their machines for nothing more than websurfing, email and word processing wouldn't miss the added functionality.

    For these kinds of people a gui that renders directly to the framebuffer would suffice. Cut out the layers of networking code, and make damn sure the windows redraw nicely. They don't care that they can choose different window managers, or control their box from the other side of the planet. All that's necessary is that it work properly, look good and be easy to use.

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  4. Yeouch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why does this send a cold chill down my spine?

  5. Re:What does this mean for KDE/Gnome? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If anything, the grandparent post is the flamebait, yet it is marked as "Score:4, Interesting".

    I was trying to decide where to eat at lunch, so I posted that comment for the virtual equivalent of a coin flip: upward mod, it was Thai food, down mod it was Qdoba.

    Basil chicken, here I come!