Mandrakelinux Goes X.org

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"

Comments

Wow, that's gotta be a record!

[JBMcB]

XFree86.org changes a few words in their license, and within four months almost every major Linux distribution and BSD has dumped it. How much longer does it have left? I'd guess by the end of the year the team will be disbanded as the independant OSS people move to x.org. Oh well, I never like the name XFree86, especially after it was ported to other architectures (XFree68? XFreePPC? :)

Re:Wow, that's gotta be a record!

[happyfrogcow]

x.org is a much better name, right?

well, maybe it is... if it's pronounced ZORG! (with exclamation and all)

Re:Wow, that's gotta be a record!

[RealAlaskan]

x.org is a much better name,

... if it's pronounced ZORG!

Ok, I vote we make it official:

X.org is pronounced ``ZORG!'' and XFree86 is pronounced ``dead''.

All in favor say ``ZORG!''. If we all say it often enough, it'll stick.

Re:Great , another config file format to learn.

[mgoodman]

If you haven't had any problems with XFree86 for the past 10 years, then you haven't *really* used it :P

Re:x.org in debian ?

[mcgroarty]

anyone knows if/when x.org will make it to debian experimental/unstable ?

Debian is not planning a change, as XFree286 is not affected by the licensing changes.

Hey-oooo! Debian versioning joke!!!

Re:Great , another config file format to learn.

[BenjyD]

pssst.. it's "of" not "off"

Maybe he means "of and only of". You never know.

Re:xorg changes

[los furtive]

Slightly older versions? You are obviously not familiar with Mandrake.

Re:Awsome..

[advocate_one]

"What I am disappointed in, however, is the lack of movement by FreeBSD to getting XORG working. A known bug that has been sitting in bugzilla since last month still hasn't been fixed, whats taking FreeBSD so long?!"

FreeBSD is dead... didn't you know??? :)

Re:Awsome..

[stienman]

to put it midely, i was running around the house naked celebrating with great joy

Dude, that is so not mild. I'm going to have to get the memory eraser out again to get rid of that thought.

-Adam

Re:xorg changes

[swillden]

Everything in XF86 is broken. But Linux users are afraid of change and won't get off this 20+ outdated architecture.

Let us know when you've finished implementing the replacement. Don't forget the network transparency. Please also make sure it's at least as fast as XFree86 (not an easy task), as extensible as X11 (which now makes effective use of hardware features that were undreamed-of 20 years ago), as easy to program with as GTK and Qt, as portable as XFree86 and supports as many video cards as XFree86.

Making it easier to configure would be good, but X.org will probably beat you to that. Making it less resource-intensive would be good, also, but the various projects working on making X servers that run on tiny hardware platforms will probably beat you to that, too.

Anyway, happy hacking!