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New X-Free86 Snapshot Available
bento writes "There is a new snapshot(3.9.16) of
XFree86 available. It now supports nVidia, i740, 3dfx Banshee, and the Voodoo3. " You can
all wipe the drool of your chins: its gonna be awhile before this morphs into XF86 v4.0, but its cool to see/touch and compile progress.
Update: 08/31 10:32 by CT : here are the release notes if you crave more data.
!/bin/bash ;)
#Modify with filenames as necessary...
#
# YMMV
find *.gz -exec tar -zxvf {} \;
cd xc
less README; less INSTALL
echo "You should know enough to compile this now,"
echo "but be sure to BACK UP your"
echo "/usr/X11R6 directory before going"
echo "any further."
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Well, it'll help for the card to be *finished* first...
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Quine "quine?
That would make sense if XFree3.9 were stable technology. However, it's not. It's a prerelease snapshot, not a stable version. Using XFree3.9 is like using Linux2.3. Not a Good Idea. And so if the whole world decides to play with it and ends up stopping actual XFree developers from getting the source tree so they can work on it (admittedly, the guy could wait a bit, but I can understand his frustration), that does cause something of a problem for those who actually are working on getting it to the masses who scream for free software and scream for it now, now, now.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Quine "quine?
Just remove -ansi -pedantic from config/cf/xfree86.cf
(atleast if you have glibc 2.1).
The problem is in that it also #defines
_GNU_SOURCE, which causes the glibc header
files to have lots fun stuff that's not ANSI
compliant.
Also, before upgrading you should know that
it seems to still be in a very experimental state,
I'm seeing funnyness like nothing happening after clicking a link in netscape.
Version 3.4 of XFree86 already supports the 3dfx Banshee and Voodoo3's. It works quite well on my machine. :)
Jane Curtin: Damn it! It's not just for x86 anymore!
(You may be too young to catch the Saturday Night Live reference.)
And what happens when everyone starts using 'IA32' and 'IA64'?
Maybe version 4.0 should be called, 'XF4'.
This sort of thing has cropped up before. And it has always been due to human error.
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This sort of thing has cropped up before. And it has always been due to human error.
HAL9000
Try Here.
I noticed there are many improvements to the xterm program provided with X. This is good news; the terminal emulation provided by most X terminal programs is pretty poor. Unfortunately, all this effort will have to be duplicated for the terminal emulators in the Gnome and KDE desktop environments. I wonder if most of the emulation details couldn't be put into a toolkit independant library and shared between these projects.
HEHE... your thinking screenshot arn't you??.
Well, its more of a preliminaty examination. You wouldn't let a crop duster pilot fly and f14 without giving him a test first. Same as you wanta make sure only the people who can handle the negative effects of installing the newest software will be installing it. You don't want it to crash average joes computer and have him cursing x86 and never using it again do you?