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Fedora Prepares For Xorg Instead of XFree86
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.)
first post!
You Americans should be ashamed of yourselves!
Detainees at Guantanamo Bay are shackled for up to 15 hours at a time in hand and leg cuffs with metal links which cut into the skin. Their "cells" are wire cages with concrete floors and open to the elements - giving no privacy or protection from the rats, snakes and scorpions loose around the base. By contrast the camp guard dogs have wooden houses with air conditioning and green grass to exercise on. A diet of foul water and food up to 10 years out-of-date has left inmates malnourished.
But worst of all is the use of vice girls to torment the most religiously devout detainees. Prisoners who have never seen an "unveiled" woman before are forced to watch as the hookers touch their own naked bodies. One said an American girl had smeared menstrual blood across his face in an act of humiliation!
You make me sick! How dare you call yourselves the land of the free and the defenders of civilization. You make me sick! You are a bunch of depraved lunatics who deserve to drown in pig shit!
found the blurb to sound like a spy commentary?
People ! I am bulding You are building They are building So ... let's give them the credit for offering alternatives.
WHY DID JOHN KERRY OPPOSE FUNDING OUR TROOPS?
Did it have anything to do with all the war crimes he accused them of committing in Vietnam during Congressional testimony in 1971???
And why did he throw military medals away during a mall peace riot in 1971 --- SOMEBODY ELSE'S?
The Register may be stupid and generally wrong, but it is good for lines like "Gosling is a good-natured Canadian, and he set about the competition with the same relish that his countrymen have for clubbing baby seals."
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
27 dead is hardly the worst terrorist attack in recorded history. Why just last week 200 were killed in spain... I know, IHBT, but theres no need to trivialise death, whether its 2 or 27 or 200 or 200,000,000 dead with stupidity like the parent.
clothes or be a infinite51mally
Xorg is an implementation of X11. XFree86 is another implementation of X11.
What you want is to know the difference between XFree86 and Xorg.
Ha! You're not exactly a picture of clarity yourself.
Because Java is the most incredible language that's ever been invented. It makes things easy and elegant. If you've got a speed problem, you need a faster computer. It's not Java's fault.
Cut the guy some slack. He just found out about Dresden and is upset...sixty years too late, but understandable.
Anybody else think Xorg sounds a lot like Zorg?
well well considering what they have done to Daniel Pearl and the kind of atrocities like bringing down the WTC and the massacre in Spain, goddamit they are having a good time! most probably an american held prisioner would be tortured and then killed, and if he's lucky enough he will be taped so the other god-hating-pig-shit-eaters can see him. fuck you, whoever you are. better get yourself some info, and then come back!
I discussed this problem briefly with Patrick Volkerding of Slackware fame. I've been teaching Linux courses at a community college using Red Hat. Even though I mainly use Slackware, I decided to use Red Hat because of its popularity and the Common Criteria certification. The big problem I've had with Red Hat is that it modifies _EVERYTHING_. I've been bit and embarrassed a number of times because I'd try to show the students something that would work with any other distribution, but doesn't with Red Hat. One of my students asked for an easy way to check the status on user accounts, so I started to show them the -S option for the passwd command. Red Hat modifies passwd so that different and useless (IMHO) information is displayed.
Becuase of the problems and non-standard way Red Hat has of doing things, I've been thinking of using another distribution in class. Patrick complained that Red Hat does a lot of non-standard things with their distribution without thinking of the problems they are causing. His big complaint is that Red Hat's mess then becomes an ad-hoc standard.
Allah forbid someone make me "unclean." That would truly be a travesty.
Oh, here comes a pig. Hold on a second while I mutter a brief prayer to Muhammed and spit on its face.
If I were a CVS developer I'd be really pissed off right now:
> a POS excuse for a revision control system like CVS
Sorry? what happened to good manner? CVS is still the work horse of pretty damn near 100% of all free software projects and God now how many non-free ones. It may have a few issues but it works as advertised and it is still very very useful, pretty much bug free and has been for many years. The CVS issues that Arch is designed to fix don't come up very often in real-world projects with a couple, or even a dozen of developers, and at the moment maybe Arch is stable, maybe it isn't, and it certainly hasn't seen the kind of usage that CVS has, so people may have very good reason not to choose it over CVS.
When you have contributed something of the order of magnitude of usefulness as CVS, maybe you will have a leg to stand on.
In the meantime people have work to do. Good day to you.
//There's nothing wrong with having hundreds of forks - usually it's pretty clear which one you want to go with.//
Well, ya know, that's not good enough. Because, ya know what, Linux is like 3-5 years behind any of the good desktop operating systems. Some people thinks 8 thousand forks are good, some people think copying microsoft is good, and some people wish that getting a good desktop and good working desktop applications on a linux box was possible.
OSX runs on top of BSD and it's brilliant. And the applications are brilliant. How long did it take apple and how many developers do they have ?
Linux advocates always have some crap excuse about why their OS stinks up the desktop. Meanwhile microsoft makes money hand over fist and threatens the viability of Linux more everyday.
I can turn a linux box into a database, a router, a firewall, a distributed environment, a blah blah blah, whatever. It really sucks on the desktop. All a linux desktop serves to do is display a bitmap to run xterms on.
Stop joking and start coding. When it's half as good as OSX I'll once again be a diehard linux fan.