[Gllug] X What Next?

NorthLondon John northlondonjohn at yahoo.co.uk
Tue May 4 19:45:59 UTC 2004


X.org has basically forked XF***, from 4.4beta3 if memory serves. That 
was the last XF with the old license, and development seems to be 
picking up pace. Fundamentally, at the moment, there is no difference 
between X and Xfree - at least, none that I noticed.

john

On 4 May 2004, at 20:28, Peter Childs wrote:

>    Since XFree86 is basically no londer Free and Debian and  Mandrake 
> are thinking of ditching it. What are the alteratives are they any 
> good.
>    And who (if anyone) is going to be using XF***86 in 12 months.
>    Is now the time that somone comes up with a big replacement thats 
> going to reform Linux for the Graphical environment and be bigger than 
> windows?
>
> Peter Childs
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