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Mandrakelinux Goes X.org

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the teaching-a-lesson dept.

dvalin writes "With Mandrakelinux now going for X.org it seems like every big linux distributor now has officialy dumped XFree86. First release for cooker was announced on the changelog list the 7th of June: http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/changelog/2004-0 6/msg00799.php Nice to see for all us cookers out there:) Also on another note, Mandrakelinux has also switched to gcc-3.4 now"

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  1. Why use X anyway by roboteeruk · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Surely by now there should be a better low level windowing system than X for linux. It's structure is antiquated and it runs like syrup, even on 3GHz PCs.