[Sussex] Xfree and Xorg

[Geoffrey Teale]

Just to throw in my 2p..

X.org is the way the majority of distros are heading because the new 
XFree86 license is GPL incompatible.  For that reason most people are 
going to find that X.org (which is the Xfree86 codebase branched off at 
4.3.0  with a few newer developments) will be a major part of their 
lives in the next year or so. 

For that reason it may be that people using Gentoo, Arch and the like 
(or people prepared to deal with source tarballs directly) will want to 
move over now and get used to it straight off.

Just as a further thought, if you are looking for the long term future 
of X you should get hold of the freedesktop.org XServer which is likely 
to be the standard base for freedesktop.org compliant systems within the 
next couple of years.  Right now it works for a limited number of 
graphics cards with kdrive support.  I've had it on my laptop (ATI 
Radeon Mobility) and my main dekstop (Nvidia GeForce FX5900) and I'm on 
the developers mailing list.  This server has some radical extensions to 
the X architecture (and some changes to the fundemental architecure) to 
support all manner of modern graphics techniques that Xfree86 currently 
does not support directly.  For more information see 
http://www.freedesktop.org

-- 
Geoff Teale
Free Software Foundation
tealeg at member.fsf.org