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Mandrake Blocked By XFree86 4.4 License
Linzer writes "A mailing-list message posted by Mandrake Linux's main developer on the Cooker mailing-list states that the development version of the distro is about to revert from XFree86 4.4 to the 4.3 version because of XFree86's recent license change. Mandrake contributors have started asking for justifications from MdkSoft. Many point out features of XF86 4.4 [an 'an open source X11-based desktop infrastructure'] they can't live without, including support for some not so uncommon hardware.
A later Cooker mailing-list post extends a bit on the reasons."
This is no big deal, just import the Win2k source that's been floating around. Of course by design it will have to run in kernel space. That way you, too, can enjoy slightly zippier performance with the unix equivalent of random blue screens..
RMS would say that "XFree86 4.4" is an oxymoron, and that it should be called "XNotFree86 4.4". That way Mandrake is technically using the latest XFree86 version and everyone is happy in their respective Free/Non-Free worlds.
Debian is expected to run into this problem in 2038. Way to go Branden.
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This guy is way out there
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Actually I think he prefers us to call it GNU/XNotFree86 4.4
What the hell are you talking about? For most of us XFree86 contributors this isn't our day job. Everybody acts like XFree86 losing "marketshare" is going to bankrupt them. As far as I know, XFree86 isn't a business and ultimately really don't give a flying fuck if everybody uses their X server or not. Yes there is a basic human trait of appreciating that your work is helping people out, but ultimately this isn't some kind of commercial competition.
You want to know what the worst thing to hit XFree86 ever was? Linux. Yep, because 99% of the linux fucktards don't understand that XFree86 was a crossplatform project and they never even put any effort into making sure their contributions didn't impact other platforms negatively.
Thanks for sharing your side of the story with Slashdot, Mr. Dawes. I can't imagine why people say they have a hard time working with you.
with the unix equivalent of random blue screens
Oh. Apparently blue screens are "teh funny" because you see them when Windows crashes. Yeah, that was like TEN YEARS AGO. Hey, fucktard! 1993 called, it wants it's Windows joke back.
I want surgical 2x4s to be legal so that I can apply one to the back of your head for being so absolutely fucking retarded. You've been humping the Linux experience so long that you've turned into a mindless drone. I have KDE and Mozilla explode with far more regularity than Windows 2000 does - and I use Windows 2000 on my primary computer, Linux on the secondary for some minor tasks.
I don't remember when I last saw a blue screen, but it may have been in 2001. A fully-patched Win2k is the best OS that Microsoft has ever made. KDE locked up on me last month just trying to copy files around and I had to ctrl+alt+backspace to kill it.
Linux et all are making progress, but complacent bullshit, untrue, unfunny jokes attacking competitors have no place in a serious Linux evangelist's manifesto and only serve to set back the free software cause.
Diplomacy 101: If you're going to lie about your competitors, shut the fuck up. If there are weaknesses in your own projects, talk about them so that they will be improved (eg: Yes, XFree does absolutely suck, how can we fix or replace it?)
Nobody here will mod you up but I sure agree with you.
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Regardless, whatever. Big words are fun, huh?
Or maybe you'd prefer FreeXFree?
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Try disuninrregardlesslibility next time... :-)
Or maybe "not-lookingly".
Lol.
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Your spelling is OK. I'm from the U.S.A., a country known for its bad English.
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Yeah I remember when I had a 486 DX2-66 and I tried dragging xterms around I used to get some bad redraw stuff happening. Sometimes I'd even get artifacts that would stay behind after the window had passed on.
What you have to do, dude, is get yourself another computer. I just performed your Window Drag Test (TM) and found that my windows drag around perfectly, as I seem to remember them doing for the past 5 years.
When people first sit down in front of a Linux computer, they don't do your patented fuck-tard test. "And it's killing us". Yeah right. I'm dying over here. My fucking 486 won't drag around my xterm across my twm desktop at an acceptable rate.
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