Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.)

3 of 491 comments (clear)

  1. alternatives to X by moojin · · Score: 0, Troll

    why not keep XFree (old version) for a while and work on an X alternative, something like the front end for Mac OS X...

    --
    Why did I lurk so long before registering for a Slashdot account? I could have had a Slashdot ID of less than 100000.
  2. Re:Of course! by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 0, Troll

    -1 redundant, no. But I do think we should seek out the people who make them and slaughter their families.

    --
    -- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
  3. Re:Great by mattcolemanrules · · Score: 0, Troll

    you, sir, are a dumbass that and your computer sounds broken