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wdemoss

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From: WV - USA

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 222

Will arch switch to the new X11 from X.org

Just came across this over at /. [url]http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/17/2 … 87&tid=189
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Since the recent controversy over XF86 4.4 license change, looks like some alternitives are being adopted. This is basically a fork of the XF86 tree right before the license change. Thank goodness for open source.

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zeppelin

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2004-03-05

Posts: 807

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Re: Will arch switch to the new X11 from X.org

good news. it was about time for a big project (Fedora) to leave xfree's implementation.. [team got splitted, licence became nonGPL, but the lead dev is stilly happy]..

I like freedesktop cause it has some really nice project [common HAL system, also tries to combine GNOME KDE etc]

new xfree's xserver (with the problematic licence) wasn't adopted by anyone..

Distros that are carrying it in with the license change integrated into their distribution are: NetBSD , Ark Linux , OpenNa Linux ,  Plamo Linux .
If you know of others, please let our Webmaster know.
from http://www.xfree86.org/ {the last setence makes me laugh}

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