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XFree86 News

Posted by justin++ on from the at-long-last dept.

PseudoMan was the first with the news: XFree86 3.3.4 has finally been released (yes, you can actually see the contents of the directory now). Rumour has it that the new release contains support for various Matrox cards, and may be the last release before we see 3.9 show up. Update: 07/20 06:05 by J : It seems that the first public beta of 4.0, 3.9.15, is now available. xinerama, here I come!

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  1. XFree86 needs more developers. by cbarry · · Score: 4

    It's kinda sad how short the XFree team is on developers when more or less 99.999% of Linux users use X and 100% of distributions package it. It could really use some more commercial support from RedHat and SUSE, though they have helped a little bit in the past (RHat donated NeoMagic code once...).

    For information on becoming an XFree86 developer, please visit the XFree86 developer page.

    Also, you non-programmers that use X can do your part by knowing that RedHat and other commercial Linux vendors have ears for their customers and showing concern for the frequency of XFree86 release cycles is a good way to let them know that support for X development is very important to the success of Linux.

  2. Re:XFree86 could be a little more open by DirkHohndel · · Score: 4

    Sorry if things went wrong that time. I get tons
    of emails a day, so I must admit that I don't
    remember the incident that you are commenting on.

    There is no competition whatsoever between the
    work that PI does and the work that SuSE does
    for 3D. I am sure that Frank LaMonica from PI
    will be happy to comment on his take on the issue.

    Most likely your request came before the
    DRI stuff was released to XFree86 (at which point
    I usually deflected people since the stuff they
    were looking for simply wasn't there, yet).

    Normally everyone who sends email to XFree86@XFree86.Org
    and states "I would like to work on ABC" with "ABC"
    somewhat more informative than "XFree86" or "drivers"
    will get an application form within a few days.
    And those people are always added to the devel
    team.

    As to the generic issue here, yes, I think that
    XFree86 should open up its development a bit.
    And guess what, we will. The release of the
    3.9.x snapshots is a first step in that direction,
    more will follow.

    Dirk Hohndel