Slashdot Mirror
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."
But I gave up at the first sign of trouble.
It's shocking to see the riots going on in Australia. It's even more shocking to see that male aborigines live on average 20 years less than white Australians.
I thought Australians were fun-loving people. Why do they treat aborigines like shit, then? I guess marketing has nothing to do with reality.
Australia is a nation borne of convicts. So I guess we shouldn't be too surprised at their disgusting behaviour.
It's shocking to see the riots going on in Australia. It's even more shocking to see that male aborigines live on average 20 years less than white Australians.
I thought Australians were fun-loving people. Why do they treat aborigines like shit, then? I guess marketing has nothing to do with reality.
Australia is a nation borne of convicts. So I guess we shouldn't be too surprised at their disgusting behaviour.
Fuck SCO.
"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher
Is this the quality of music that RIAA is trying to sell??? No wander no one is paying for it!!
Well now, this is strange, I've never had my formatting disappear this badly in my message before.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered ... Ahh, forget it.
How does this stop anybody that wants to run 4.4 with Mandrake from installing it separately? Yes, this delays the Mandrake release, but the Mandrake should have settled the license issues before they upgraded to 4.4; then it wouldn't be necessary to roll back the changes.
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Offtopic? yes. Important to know? definitely.
So I've been running a dual-boot Windows XP / Linux box for years now. Never any problem I couldn't fix. But when I decided to install Mandrake 10.0 beta1, it decided to mangle my partition structure and completely prevent Windows from booting (recovery, fixboot, fixmbr, upgrade current install, install new xp over linux partition... nothing works).
So now I'm a full-time linux user, but not by choice. Buyer beware, and leave betas to the professionals.
-ac
Hmmmm... what's worse, a nation founded by convicts, or a nation founded by religous fundamentalists?
Haha.
"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher
How about we put all unfunny people like you on trains and send them off into camps? It's not big deal. Simple solution.
John? John Ashcroft?
Shouldn't you be putting terminally ill medical marijuana users in prison with Tommy Chong or tearing up the Constitution or something, rather than posting to Slashdot?
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
I'm Batman
Shouldn't you be shooting yourself in the head. It would make the world a little better place.
"Learn English properly." does not mean the same thing as "Learn proper English."
The first implies that you're learning or have learnt it improperly, and you need to adapt your learning methods. The second implies that you have not learnt real, grammatically correct, English, regardless of learning methods, and you should do so. As far as I know, both are correct uses of the English language.
It's just "regardless"...not "irregardless"...sheesh. what's next? disirregardlesslying? idiots.
regard: respect or pay attention to something
regardless: to ignore, not pay attention (the opposite)
irregardles: misused word, now in such widespread usage, that it's accepted...even though, essentially, it's a borderline double negative.
"Regardless of the fact that The X Consortium and XFree86 are different groups"
this makes perfect sense. you would be telling us:
"Ignoring the fact that The X Consortium..."
or
"Not paying attention to the fact that The X Consortium..."
You're going to die in your sleep.
"Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them"
- Edgar Allen Poe
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
I didn't say "Learn English properly", I said "Learn to use English properly."
How were you modded Insightful? You should have been modded Flamebait for attempting to fix something that wasn't broken.
I hate the moderation system.
evil adrian