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XFree86 4.3.0 in Debian Unstable

Posted by michael on from the hurray dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "XFree86 4.3.0 has finally made it into Debian unstable. See the announcement." Note that Direct Rendering is broken (there's already a bug filed, and I'm experiencing the same problem - looks like something small and stupid, affecting everyone), so don't dist-upgrade just yet.

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  1. This is fantastic by klupo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well that's great I just finished gettting my 2.2 kernel working and now this

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  2. Good old debian by kinnell · · Score: 5, Funny

    This highlights one of the great advantages of debian - by the time they're ready to upgrade to version 4.4, all this licensing fiasco will be gone and forgotten.

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  3. Woohoo! by MrHanky · · Score: 5, Funny

    And because of XFree86's license change, Debian will now be as up to date as all the other distros. In your face, Gentoo zealots!

  4. Re:Isn't this late? by twilight30 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since you asked nicely, here's why:

    Debian tests for a wider range of architectures than the rest of the Linux distros, and in fact wider than XFree86 itself does. (Branden Robinson points this out on his site - Google for 'Debian X Strike Force').

    The odd architectures are more difficult to test for, but it results in a couple of benefits:

    * Changes can go upstream (obviously, I'm not referring to 4.4) -- and in fact XF86 kind of expects Debian to test for them
    * Debian as a whole gets a much more stable set of X packages than the others do -- unstable packages for X are at least as stable as most other distros' production versions.

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  5. Re:DRI by CableModemSniper · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ah yes, DRI works for you with the Nvidia driver. You know that the Nvidia driver doesn't use the DRI infrastructure right?

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