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Fedora Prepares For Xorg Instead of XFree86

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sea-change-or-teapot-tempest dept.

ZuperDee writes "I noticed in the development branch of Fedora today that they appear to be in the process of creating new xorg RPMs, and from the looks of the changelogs in those RPMs, it looks like their ultimate plan is to switch from XFree86 to the XOrg Foundation's implementation of X11. Anyone else here think this could signal the beginning of a new trend in Linux distributions, and that XOrg could end up becoming the new de-facto X11 implementation?" (See this earlier story,too.)

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  1. Re:De Facto by normal_guy · · Score: 5, Funny

    One of the reasons I _don't_ like the open source market. Make a comment about one of the developer's favorite movies, and a new fork is started.

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  2. Re:De Facto Standards by Fourier · · Score: 5, Funny

    De facto implies that it is, in fact, the standard, as opposed to, say, de jure

    In the case of open source software, sometimes I think it is more accurate to speak of "the standard du jour."

  3. Re:De Facto by Hatta · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's nothing wrong with having hundreds of forks - usually it's pretty clear which one you want to go with.

    Hundreds of forks?! And I have trouble remembering which one is for the salad.

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  4. Re:Probably not. by mr_jim83 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...unless David Dawes pulls his head out of his ass and stops shooting himself in the foot.

    He must be flexible. And good at blind shooting.