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New, Modularized X Window Release Now Available for Download
X11R6.9 is comprised of many distinct components bonded in a single tree, based on imake. X11R7.0 splits that set of components into logically distinct modules, separately developed, built, and maintained by the community of X.Org developers. This simultaneous release gives a transition point for developers, builders, and vendors to adapt their practices to the new X.Org modular process.
X11R7.0 supports Linux and Solaris at this time, with other support pending. X11R7.1, the first modular roll-up release, is scheduled mid-2006. While the monolithic tree will continue to be fully supported and released, new feature development is expected to concentrate on the modular code base.
The X11R7.0 and X11R6.9 releases are the work of more than fifty volunteer contributors worldwide, working under the release management team of Kevin Martin (Head), Alan Coopersmith, and Adam Jackson, with the support of Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and the unsupported, generous contribution of effort by Adam Jackson.
All X Window System Releases are available from ftp.X.Org and mirror sites worldwide (see http://wiki.x.org/Mirrors). They are distributed under the MIT ("X") License by the X.Org Foundation LLC. Information concerning organization, activities, and mailing lists can be found at www.X.Org. Membership is free and open to contributors. Sponsorship is encouraged to support the global activities of the X.Org Foundation. Current X.Org Sponsors include Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, StarNet Communications, AttachmateWRQ, Hummingbird, and Integrated Computer Solutions Incorporated [ICS].
In continuous use for over 20 years, the X Window System provides the only standard platform-independent networked graphical window system bridging the heterogeneous platforms in today's enterprise: from network servers to desktops, thin clients, laptops, and hand-helds, independent of operating system and hardware.
* LINUX is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. "Solaris" is a trademark of Sun Microsystems. All company names are trademarks of their registered owners.
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When a vulnerability is found in libXpm, you won't have to download 15MB of fonts for the update to the library.
Also, drivers will now be released completely independently of the server. So you won't have to wait months for a new driver for your card; maybe a couple of weeks at most.
... there are a few new features to expect. I'm most curious about the new drivers for ATI's R300-Chips (and newer), called "r300", which will provide GLX-Support (hardware-accelerated OpenGL) in a Free Software-only manner.
:)
Oh, and there are some minor features to be added, like 30Bit visuals for improved greyscale graphics for medical purposes, for example.
Apart from the new drivers, there's nothing to be OVERLY excited about this release - unless you're going to build yourself, I'm really looking forward to playing around with portions of the code without having to recompile the whole bloody source again.
:%s/Open Source/Free Software/g
YTARY!
I've been using Windows for years. First they started with numbers after the name, then they put "Me!" instead, then something about experience points. Now that's not enough, and they want prefixes as well.
Screw the bastards. I'm going with Linux.
I would think that if you were used to getting a cheeseburger by driving to McDonalds, waiting in line, then ordering one, but then one day you were sitting in your office and decided that you wanted a cheeseburger and 50 ninja kangaroos showed up, sliced apart the McDonalds building with their jedi lightsabers and then delivered the parts to your office, inside of which they re-assembled the entire McDonalds and the re-assembled cook prepared a quarter-pounder just for you, that you might consider this a major change in the way you get your cheeseburger.
Even if the cheeseburger tasted exactly the same as it would have otherwise.
some may claim its survival of the fittest or evolution at work.
Really, I thought it was about intelligent design.
"If, therefore, any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone."
~Epictetus
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
BSD-style based distribution
Linux® based distribution
I think we need to drop them an e-mail suggesting that the page needs updating :)
I've got a fever and the only prescription is more COBOL.
Every so often I think about cancelling the job, but then I'd have to go shop for a space heater.
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
I used to X with a passion when I first started using linux back in 98.
Oh, man, those were the days... when you could not only X but X with a passion. [sighs wistfully]
X is not bad but perhaps Xorg sucks?
What I want to know is if they are planning on [...] adding features like sound support,Nope. Next question.
Sound support is handled by a sound server, which fortunately runs independently of X.
transparent objects,
You mean like compositing?
anti-aligned fonts (I think support is added now),
Keep your magnet away from my monitor!
resolution changes that dont require a reboot,
Resolution changes don't require a reboot, just a restart of X.
ajax/caml/dashboard or some xml and javascript support
Huh?! AJAX is for the Web, CAML is a proprietary language, so of course X.org isn't written therein, and I'm not sure in what way you mean "support for XML or Javascript" other than to say that extensions/plugins/modules (whatever the X people call them) would be significantly slower if written in these languages. Since it seems that you're "concerned" with X's bloat, I'm sure you understand why that'd be a bad idea.
I actually hope this was helpful, but if I was just the unwitting victim of flamebait, I can roll with it.