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X.Org 6.8.2 is Out
ertz writes "The X.Org Foundation today announced the fourth release of the X Window System since the formation of the Foundation in January of 2004. The new X.Org release, called X Window System Version 11, Release 6.8.2 (X11R6.8.2) builds on the work of X.org X11R6.8.0 and X11R6.8.1 released in 2004. X11R6.8.2 combines the latest developments from many people and companies working with the X Window System and an open X.Org Foundation Release Team. All Official X.Org Releases are available for download from the ftp site and at mirror-sites world-wide."
I wonder if Ati users will have to wait another 6 months to get 6.8.2 support.
I wish they'd release Sarge already so that Xorg will go into unstable.
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This announcement means nothing without a changelog
Can someone set up a torrent at www.mininova.org? It is an open-tracker and well-populated.
Someone should have done this before we slashdotted their server.
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Debian is very conservative in upgrades. I understand that it is why Debian is very stable too. They (Debian) wait for the early adopters (Mandrake et al...) to see and iron out the bugs. Why are you anonymous?
Well, if nothing has changed since the fork, the answer is probably: ``Not really.'' Wasn't the glacial pace and control-freak policies of Xfree the reason for the fork in the first place?
See what I've been reading.
Dear Taco,
Please post a link to a summary of changes when anouncing the release of a new version of any software.
This applies to a broad range of OSes. It has very little to do with Linux directly.
Once again, someone copies Apple and yet completely misses the point. In OS X, all windows have a drop shadow, but the active window has a deeper one than all of the others making it obvious to the subconscious that it is `closer'. In the screenshot, all windows had the same amount of shadow. Nice eye-candy, but not good user interface design.
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Er, you've missed the point. The point is that his X server is calling OpenGL, for all its rendering. So the HW can do all kinds of special effects, like piping scaled windows around for better representation of related contexts. Quibbling about beta features like dropshadow differentiation is really just sour grapes. I worked at Apple for a while; I know how tempting it is to complain when someone else furthers a technique Apple pioneered, or even just pioneered in promoting. If Apple were publishing GPL OpenGL X versions that run on other OS'es than OSX, there might be something to complain about. But not really - then we'd be happy to have some competition to keep things moving forward.
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This should have been put in the BSD section as well, for obvious reasons. I'd add the Unix section, except there isn't one. Come to think of it, wouldn't it make a lot of sense to have a single section for Linux and Unix (including BSD)? The distinction between Linux and Unix is more legal than technical.
Every new version of OSX that has come out has made my old Mac run faster.
And the funny thing is how Apple fanboys like to make out that shows how good Apple are, rather than how crappy the early OSX releases were... X_x
We need open hardware
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I wonder when Linux users will stop buying hardware that doesn't have published interfaces.
As soon as you tell us what to buy instead. Other than NVIDIA and ATI, neither of which publishes a full register level spec, which video chipsets are available as consumer level video cards sold in Best Buy stores or as part of a notebook computer? Or do you expect us all to buy X11 thin clients instead of video cards?
Debian is very conservative in upgrades. I understand that it is why Debian is very stable too.
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But isn't that why we have Stable, Testing and Unstable? "Stable" should be conservative in upgrades, Testing and Unstable are for incorporating new software into the future products?
Maybe they are just way more convservative then I realized
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Yes, I'm very dissappointed in Debian/unstable for this. Certainly many other packages are available in unstable, up to CVS and bleeding-edge upgrades. But no X.org.
I've had some nasty things happen with package dependencies breaking in unstable, so I'm fairly sure they're not holding off because of that.
I remember that, and I agree it was the straw that broke the camel's back, but I also recall that there had been long-standing, wide-spread dissatisfaction with the pace of development and the access to the process.
I was exaggerating when I said that Xfree isn't being developed; it still seems to be lumbering along at about the same old pace. I think that the pace at which x.org is moving will have nearly as much to do with its success as the new, improved (actually, same old?) license.
See what I've been reading.
One could get contributions by demonstrating that there was an actual need. Thus far, it appears to be wishful thinking on the part of the developers. IMHO it would be much more effective approach for HP, Sun, et al to approach the card and chip vendors and twist their arms to release better specs and drivers under a mutually acceptable open source license. The end result would be much better cards for the $ than what we're likely to get from OGP.
In some alternate universe where the only use for accelerated 3d was gaming, your post would make tons of sense.
Here in the real world, hardware accelerated 3d is an important capibility for everything from CAD to basic 2d desktop rendering.
The requirement for 3d hardware acceleration for general usage applications is becoming more and more widespread. Already features that were only avaiable in high-end 3d cards in 1995 are now required to get a reasonable user experiance out of both Windows XP and Mac OS X - I wouldn't assume that modern Open Source desktop environments won't use the same techniques to keep up.
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