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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. classical and stable? by SQLz · · Score: 1, Troll
    one of the most classical and stable ones

    I don't get this line. Does it mean that all the packages are old as hell or that its one of the most stable distributions as in uptime? If the latter is the case, I object! Thre are hundreds of distros, who has tested all of them for stability? Not this character I'm sure.