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XFree86 4.4 Released
puriots0 writes "XFree86 version 4.4 is finally out! Grab it while it's still hot, if you don't mind the recent licensing changes... And if you don't care about the license, but the maintainers of your distribution do, this might be the only way to get it for the moment." The XFree86 people seem very eager to claim that the new license is nothing bad; see their FAQ. However, people who have reviewed it, such as RMS and Branden Robinson, think differently. It looks as if the XFree86 people have a short timespan to either rethink their license changes or be dropped from every/almost every Linux distribution in favor of a forked codebase.
Story says "XFree86 4.4 Released"
What's it been released from?
Don't mod me, bro'!!!!
the GPL be a harsh mistress....
XFree86 4.3 just got into Debian unstable. Debian won't arrive at avoiding 4.4 until eight or nine months from now.
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Whats new in 4.4, the site seems to be /.ed. Can a Karma whore please post come release notes.
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"What other alternatives are there to Xfree? "
Windows, but if the license of X is what really bugs you...
"Derp de derp."
that by posting it on slashdot, you just ruined what might have been "the only way to get it for the moment", don't you?
But if we have to f'up the server right, how about linking to the release notes?
I don't know about being dropped from distributions, but their FAQ has been dropped from the web :)
Karma? Hey I just call it as I see it.
That's what Linux needs! Proper support for embroidering! I hope the fd.o people get around to this soon. Linux really has opportunities in the market for embroidered devices...
Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
As with as Keith's work there is the x.org reference server tree on freedesktop.org, which is basically 4.4 without the contaminated bits. I suspect the fact this tree was close to ready for full release has something to do with the sudden appearance of XFree 4.4, but maybe I'm just cynical.
"Careful with that X eugene"
ex-Free86 8)
*Cough* Ahem... What I mean is, this has happened before and it will happen again and is nothing to be too concerned about. There can be brief periods of pain, but it's generally not too bad.
Cheers.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
if so, I think we should mainly focus on finishing up the user interface and making it more robust
You're right, of course. As the project manager of Anyone Anywhere Who Has Ever Written Any Free Software, I will make sure to let them know that shadows and transparency are officially pushed back to 2005, and all man hours are to be spent on Robustosity.
I'll also redirect the efforts of those guys in France who were writing ANOTHER image gallery program. Seriously, don't we have enough? We're working on Robustness now, guys! Pay attention!
Holy hell man, my mouse only has one wheel - I can't see where they'd put the other two...
I wonder if the forking argument itself (please say that correctly :-) has gathered sufficient momentum
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Forking thins the hurd (-1, terrible joke)
Forking is natural. Without it there wouldn't be a hurd needing thinning in the first place. (-2, *really* terrible joke)
Visit CryptoGnome in his home.
What other alternatives are there to Xfree?
Well, if you are a purist and don't mind a lack of drivers, you can go straight to using X11R6. This is the foundation for every UNIX vendor's windowing system, too (except for, uh, the drivers).
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> It prevents you including GPL-licensed code in an X server derived from
;)
> XFree86; that is enough reason for Debian to avoid the new release, it seems.
Debian just moved X 4.3.0 into the unstable tree about a week and a half ago; I don't think any of us Debianistas were really worried about seeing XFree 4.4 in any of the three main Debian trunks this year anyway.
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...there were no more hypothetical questions?
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Yeah, and now so do we.
have you ever considered a career in the social sciences?
You're fired.
Bill
yeah, you would probably love it until about the 50th time it came up... This is one of the reasons I dont use windows anymore. If you want to add that kind of thing to your computer, feel free, but keep it away from mine.
I think this is ncurses big chance for a come back. Everyone looking for XFree86 alternative, look no further!
He could just find another test like that which shows M$ to be faster and then go to work in their Marketing department. :-)
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