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Debian Sid Moves to X.Org

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the politics-and-guis-oh-my dept.

debiansid writes "Yes, Debian sid finally has X.Org. The Changelogs suggest that some work has been taken from the Ubuntu packages of X.Org. Here is an article that gives details on how to migrate to X.Org on sid. This article, by the way, has been posted from an X.Org based X-Window System, and it really IS much faster than XFree86."

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  1. YES!!! X.Org! by DarkYoshi · · Score: 0, Troll
    Okay, look at how nice the new visual effects for the desktop are on X.Org! Just wait for me to log out...

    What? Why do I have to log out? Because it takes far too much of the CPU power I have.

    Waits 30 more seconds for Debian to start...

    THERE! LOOK! IT'S REAL TIME TRANSPARENCY! WOW! ISN'T IT AWESOME?!?!

    Me: No. No, it isn't. In fact, I can't see a difference between KDE 3.4.1 with X.Org and KDE 3.1 with XFree86. ^^^ That was an exaggerated dialogue between my friend and I when he was showing me some useless visual effects on Gentoo with X.Org.

  2. Re:One complication... by Pflipp · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why, o why do they always make changing the C++ ABI such an effort? It takes some credibility out of C++ as a stable lower-level programming target if such a relatively frequently occuring change in the core obsoletes so much essential packages.

    (Oh and please, don't make any sharp remarks about the quality of C++ as a language that I have already swallowed ;-)

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  3. What news? by RWerp · · Score: 0, Troll

    So debian folk is moving to X.Org? Yawn... I had it on my machine for a year already. Glad you crawled from under that rock of yours.

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