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The State of X.Org

Posted by kdawson on from the marks-the-spot dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has up an article looking at the release of X Server 1.4.1. This maintenance release for X.Org, which the open-source operating systems depend upon for living in a graphically rich world, comes more than 200 days late and it doesn't even clear the BugZilla release blocker bug. A further indication of problems is that the next major release of X.Org was scheduled to be released in February... then May... and now it's missing with no sign of when a release will occur. There are still more than three dozen outstanding bugs. Also, the forthcoming release (X.Org 7.4) will ship with a slimmer set of features than what was initially planned."

4 of 618 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Anything else out there? by Pienjo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Eh, you *did* know that X.Org started as a not-so-friendly fork of XFree86, partly because XFree86 got stale due to internal problems, right?

    Right!?

  2. So that's what the ??? stands for by Kugrian · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Thirdly, very boring project subject matter.


    1. This
    2. That
    3. Very boring project subject matter (???)
    4. Profit
  3. Re:Anything else out there? by flnca · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Mod parent up, that's not redundant!

  4. Re:Anything else out there? by flnca · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How did I know this gets labelled redundant? ;-)