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X.Org Releases First Modular Source Roll-Up

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-to-be-confused-with-the-fruit-variety dept.

NewsForge is reporting that X.Org has released their first modular roll-up release. From the article: "All X11R7.0 derivative ("modularized") releases divide the source code into logically distinct modules, separately developed, built, and maintained by the community of X.Org developers. This concentrates and accelerates development time, supporting continuous modification, testing, and publication of each module.The new modular format offers focused development, and rapid and independent updates and distribution of tested modular components as they are ready, freed from the biennial maintenance release timetable."

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  1. The kernel should go the same way! by bunbuntheminilop · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its like a fasionable thing to do nowdays.

  2. But..!? by hey · · Score: 5, Funny

    So they broke it up into pieces and a we are now celebrating the
    release of the pieces rollde together into a monolithic whole!?

  3. Re:Gentoo by Frogbert · · Score: 5, Funny

    That would be really cool. In the meantime though I would like to suggest a system where most common large "packages" of software were compiled and posted some place on the net that Gentoo users could download them. That way everytime there was a point release they wouldn't have to spend ages recompiling. Sure there may be a slight hit to performance but given the inherrent redundancy of compiling the same packages thousands of times on every users computers to just a few times for major architecture it makes sense to me. /runs for cover.

  4. Re:Still doesn't fix by EnderWiggnz · · Score: 2, Funny

    LOL... yeh... because bandwidth is what is preventing people from hack X. Its not the insanity of Scheiffler's design, or the arcana of Gettys' et.al implementation.

    yeh, its the bnandwidth thats stopping people from just sitting down and whacking X...

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    ... hi bingo ...
  5. Re:Gentoo by Frogbert · · Score: 5, Funny

           (J) <--- The joke
           ...
           ( )
          __|__     <--- You
            |
           / \

  6. Re:Accelerated Indirect GLX! Woowoo. by RedNovember · · Score: 5, Funny
    Accelerated indirect GLX has been a until recently been a unattainable holy grain

    I'll say. I've been waiting for accelerated indirect GLX beer for a while now. Booze Informer says it could unseat Old Janx Spirit as the choice smasher for Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters.

    Woo woo, indeed.

    --
    "MY APOCALYPTIC TENOR HAS NOT BEEN DISPELLED!" - T-Rex, qwantz.com
  7. Re:fruit roll-up by krmt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Go play the game Katamari Damacy. Then imagine that each random thing you add to your proto-star is one little piece of the Xorg whole. You can imagine that the server is a cow if you like.

    --

    "I may not have morals, but I have standards."

  8. Re:Still doesn't fix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Which is easier to repair and inspect. A modern skyscraper or a 1000 small homes in a suburb?

    I don't want to shit on your OpenSores-parade, but the skyscraper is.