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Slackware Chooses X.org Server Over XFree86
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 ..."
Don't know the answer. Just thought I'd say.
redundancy be damned
redundancy be damned
Do linux desktop edvelopers take pride in being different? Some things are different to the point that are incompatible. And thats' not good enought if linux wants to suceed in desktop
Slackware is k00l for it's own reasons, but keeping sendmail is the kind of thing that makes people say "wtf are these guys smoking?" x.org is cool because it supposedly is better for the end user than xfree86, but who knows at this point.
note: this an off-the-cuff remark that I would have usually posted anonymously, but remarks like this have gotten me banned from posting anonymously on Slashdot.
who the hell modded this Informative? Funny, maybe, but Informative??? the moderators must really be on crack tonight...
Yeah, a butterfly, animated dog or paperclip or similar is soooo much more mature/useful. *Kaplonk*
for ( i=0 ; i MAX_BASE ; i++ ) if ( areBelongsTo[base[i]] == YOU ) areBelongsTo[base[i]] = US ;
once you go slack, you don't go back!
That's a damned good signature you've got there. :)
I will forward it to our local peace groups and left-leaning organisations