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X.Org 6.8.2 is Out

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-download-on dept.

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."

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  1. fp tastes like by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    chicken

  2. Windows driven Linux by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I like to make little digs at my Windows-loving friends about the instability of their beloved OS, but they really got me good with their critique of X-Windows.

    If you look at what X-Windows does, beyond the standard windowing stuff, it is a lot of shading and anti-aliasing and subpixel shading and so on. These functions are actually implemented in hardware, for the most part, and the X system calls the exposed driver routines to make them work. So if your card doesn't support some feature, you aren't going to get it: it's not really supported in software.

    But, they asked, who drives the video card manufacturers? It's a rhetorical question, of course, because with Intel and Microsoft basically defining what it is to be a PC (with initiatives like PC98 and other PC definitions), it is they who are telling the video card makers which direction to go and what features to build into their cards.

    So X-windows will always lag behind Windows because Windows is the driving force behind graphics improvements. I wish I had an answer to this, but unfortunately it seems to be the case.

  3. This is the Pink Syntax by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Behold ye cats, here is the Pink Syntax! Mingus is God, God is Mingus.

  4. Already done.... by khellendros1984 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I had this built and installed before the slashdot post. Go me!!

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    It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
  5. Re:Changelog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Dear Taco,

    Please post a link to a summary of changes when anouncing the release of a new version of any software.


    Is it permissible for him to omit the link the second time he posts the story?

  6. Re:Ati Drivers by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Possibly you can name a good 802.11g card with WEP support.
    Trying to get my kernel to compile in the right support for Gentoo 2004.3 has been an ordeal.
    I've got the firmware and everything working under the live CD.
    This page has a note that's kinda funny:
    7.c. Default: Manual Configuration
    Introduction.
    Manually configuring a kernel is often seen as the most difficult procedure a Linux user ever has to perform. Nothing is less true -- after configuring a couple of kernels you don't even remember that it was difficult ;)
    I assure you, after I've proffered the correct burnt offerings to appease the kernel gods, I shall never view the procedure as trivial.
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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  7. Re:Ati Drivers by Wiz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is off-topic, but....

    Erm, why don't you use 7.d instead where the whole process is basically automated? Run genkernel --menuconfig all if you wish to tweak which modules are available.

    If all else fails, use ndiswrapper. It works fine for me.

  8. Come on Taco by LittleLebowskiUrbanA · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    explain how this belongs in the Linux section.

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    This guy is way out there
  9. Re:Debian? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am a spy I will be anonymous if I want to be. It is a matter of national security. You don't want to know my name. I could tell you but then I would have to kill you. You had better give me the information that I want or you will be kidnapped drugged and interrogated and then left in some gulag to die.

    I am just kidding. Or am I ?

  10. Re:Ati Drivers by jbolden · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why would we want a first class binary-level driver model? So that we can have:

    compatibility problems
    very difficult API maintainence problems
    closed source drivers introducing OS bugs
    etc...

    Hell no. I'd much rather have worse hardware support than what we have on Windows. Probably at around 5% market share ATI is going to start to lose major vendor contracts (Dell, HP, etc...) because it will make their desktops not supportable fully under Linux. At that point ATI will take the driver issue seriously.

    Nvidia will be far ahead of them and this may be yet another advantage for Nvidia....

  11. Dynamic monitor reconfig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One thing missing in current XFree that really hurts is the lack of ability to dynamically add, remove or change monitors and videomodes. This makes it very hard to use Xfree with laptops. Another problem -- suspend/resume and X11. It should be able to detect HW config changes after a resume.

    Unfortunately I did not see anybody working on that...