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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Window Manager?? by GigsVT · 2004-01-23 02:06 · Score: 3, Troll

What the fuck is the "X Window Manager"?

I'm seriously confused now.

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1. Re:Window Manager?? by GigsVT · 2004-01-23 02:12 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  How is this a troll... It's a serious question.. I've never heard of an "X Window Manager"...
  
  Is this some new window manager to run on the X Window System or what??
  
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Eye Candy and Functionality? by flyneye · 2004-01-23 02:32 · Score: 0, Troll

how about PERFORMANCE?
needs to be more like a lean fast ferarri than a cadillac with a lot of superfluous whistles and bells.
X is the old standby but its SSLLLOOOOWWWW.
lets hop up the engine before we give it a paint job.makes sense,no?

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