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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. Oh my god! by AchilleTalon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    When will we get the Y?

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  2. Re:This is great news. by Xabraxas · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't see how the LGPL could be a problem at all.

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  3. drivers? by Chuck+Bucket · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I use nVidia drivers in Linux for Xfree, will Xorg use the same drivers? are they compatible? I'd hope/assume so since Xorg is a fork of Xfree...correct?

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