Cygwin/XFree86 Leaving XFree86.org 446
An anonymous reader writes "The Cygwin/XFree86 project is leaving XFree86.org. For those that don't know, Cygwin/XFree86 is a port of the X Window System to Cygwin (which provides a *nix-like API on Windows). Here is the announcement and the start of the trouble. The XFree86 project has pushed away more developers than most projects ever have - is this the beginning of the end for XFree86?"
So uhhhh.... (Score:4, Funny)
What this means for XFree86
Some will say nothing. Some will say good riddance. Some will say this is the beginning of the end. Who knows? Who cares? Let /. figure it out.
So uhhhhh... who wants to tackle this one? ;-)
Best quote: (Score:2, Funny)
Some will say nothing. Some will say good riddance. Some will say this is the beginning of the end. Who knows? Who cares? Let
Re:Xouvert? (Score:2, Funny)
Great... (Score:2, Funny)
Yo la tengo: (Score:3, Funny)
Re:beginning of the end? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:beginning of the end? (Score:2, Funny)
disclaimer: this is not a troll post! i'm running Xfree86 right now!!
Is this the beginning of the end? (Score:4, Funny)
That was easy! Ask me another one!
Thomas! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Maybe XFree has had its day (Score:5, Funny)
That's why when an X client and X server share a machine, XFree86 doesn't use the network layer whatsoever. And every time someone complains about that nonexistant "overhead" when X11 is discussed, God kills a kitten. X11 and Free86 have enough genuine warts of their own without having to make up more. So think of the kittens and forget the "network overhead".
Schism! (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Perseverance (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Just like Gnome was the end of KDE (Score:1, Funny)
Re:beginning of the end? (Score:2, Funny)
Being the fool that I am - I told Keith Packard that my new fast box would build the xfree86 xserver in 25 min. He then showed me that his old 300Mhz laptop could build his version of the xserver in 5 min. He said it was because he didn't have a lot of bloat - no x86 emulator or unicode conversion. His xserver is also a lot smaller.
Re:Leaving? (Score:5, Funny)
let /. figure it out (Score:2, Funny)