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Slackware Chooses X.org Server Over XFree86

Posted by timothy on from the is-it-so-xurprising dept.

Ananamous Coward writes "Some big distros had already dumped XFree86 for X.org for license reasons, but now Slackware, one of the most classical and stable ones, has announced in its changelog for slackware-current that they are switching to X.org, mostly for compatibility reasons. Looks like X.org is now the future of X for Linux ..."

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  1. Wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    There are people running Slackware that use a GUI?

    1. Re:Wait... by paulthomas · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah. It's called ncurses.

    2. Re:Wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I play my DVDs in a framebuffer console with MPlayer, insensitive clod!

    3. Re:Wait... by datadriven · · Score: 3, Funny

      Finally an article when I can talk about Slackware and NOT be a troll. Actually if you look on linuxquestions.org you'll see that there are a LOT of slackware users that use a gui.

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    4. Re:Wait... by Saeger · · Score: 4, Funny
      There are people running Slackware that use a GUI?

      Yeah, and those rehabilitated console-snobs are now able to perform l33t magic like viewing & editing images, watching movies, and playing games besides nethack!

      Step 1 of the 12 step program is disassociating exclusive CLI-mastery from self-worth. :)

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    5. Re:Wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      screen is more like a hack that's in between a CLI and X windows. If you relaly want a multi tasked windowed CLI enviornment, use emacs =P

    6. Re:Wait... by deadlinegrunt · · Score: 4, Funny

      "...and playing games besides nethack!"

      Naw, I didn't care for all the graphical bloat.*

      *Moderator hint: think joke

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    7. Re:Wait... by MacJedi · · Score: 1, Funny

      Well it ain't called GNU screen for nothing. :)

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    8. Re:Wait... by TWX · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Todo: Get Linux to boot on a Black And Decker Appliance."

      I could loan you a Black and Decker valve grinder from the 1960s or so for you to test with. It's probably more functional than the average e-Machine...

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    9. Re:Wait... by Afrosheen · · Score: 4, Funny

      Actually, that's watchable on my laptop. Open a console up fullscreen (1680x1050 res), launch mplayer -vo aa (ascii lib rocks) and watch away. Always freaks people out, especially at that res because they can figure out what I'm watching.

      I just tell them my DVD drive is broken.

    10. Re:Wait... by mlk · · Score: 5, Funny
      playing games besides nethack!

      There are games other than NetHack?

      Ohh, yes, you have Hunt the Wumpus.
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    11. Re:Wait... by Billly+Gates · · Score: 2, Funny

      Whats wrong with using Emacs instead?

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  2. How could you have ignored the REAL story? by burgburgburg · · Score: 5, Funny
    ap/joe-3.1-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to joe-3.1. Now with Klingon support!

    The long national nightmare is over! Finally, I can sleep easily, knowing that all those years of intensive study have been recognized, and in some way, appreciated.

  3. Re:I wonder what Richard Dawes thinks... by Daimaou · · Score: 4, Funny

    Richard Dawes probably doesn't care. I think David Dawes should be getting a clue though.

  4. HA! by SaDan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slackware... The official Linux distro of the Klingon Empire!

  5. yummy... by templest · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that we've got a stable, mature, and well rounded XServer...

    Fuck it, let's make a new one.

    I know everything you can possibly flame me for in this post, It's a joke. mod me funny :)

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  6. Can you hear that noise? by mcc · · Score: 4, Funny

    That wierd sort of rattling? Yeah. That's the sound of the open source development process functioning properly... ^_^

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  7. 3 step process by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    STEP ONE: Arbitrarily switch from something that works fine to something that also works fine.
    STEP TWO: ???
    STEP THREE: Profit!

  8. Re:Why bother? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The latest license change is really a bit of a storm in a teacup, but it's been the last straw for a lot of people.

    And now that we've hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.

  9. Re:Why bother? by metamatic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why didn't he just back down?

    Same reason people kept developing GNOME even after the licensing issues with Qt and KDE were resolved. Ego.

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  10. Xfree86 is dying. by Stonent1 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Today Nmap confirmed that Xfree86 is dying....

    (Someone had to do it)

    1. Re:Xfree86 is dying. by stor · · Score: 2, Funny

      Today Nmap confirmed that XFree86 is dying....

      What option to do you need to supply to nmap to have it obtain that information?

      Cheers
      Stor

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  11. Re:Surprising by RucasRiot · · Score: 2, Funny

    hey man sendmail is the best MTA ever coded.

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  12. Re:device drivers??? by chendo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah. Like the Matrix.

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  13. I'm awestruck by Phleg · · Score: 2, Funny

    My god, four cliches in one sentence.

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  14. Re:Well... by dipipanone · · Score: 4, Funny

    but the rest of my machines at home don't even have monitors or keyboards. ;-)

    You should count yourself lucky. I'm so poor that none of my machines have CPU's, hard drives or RAM.

    In fact, I had to reply to this post using a punched card, which was then delivered by courier to the university to be run on their 1950's time sharing system...