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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 ..."
It's jost not good enougth if linux wants to suceed in desktop.
I do both. I have an old Pentium 200 MMX running as a "firewall". I term it that because Purdue University forbids us to connect two computers up to the ResNet ethernet. We can't have routers, either. So, what this box is doing is acting as my firewall, as well as running some services on which for me to do web development. Then, on my primary computer (which happens to be a laptop), I'm dual-booting Windows and Slackware (with a GUI). On that, I use Dropline Gnome. Dropline is really sweet-looking, and I've got it customized to my liking. I like it more than KDE. Maybe I'm used to it now... but before, I used KDE and liked that as well. I'm not trying to flame either, but both are respectable desktop environments, and I'm just more acquainted with Gnome at the moment. And yes, as some other comments suggest, ncurses is a nice GUI. =P (The "firewall" computer can't really run X anyway... it's kind of sluggish. It has acceptable performance with Blackbox (or any blackbox-like clone), but chokes horribly when running anything else, including a Counter-Strike server for more than 2 people. =D