HJ Posted February 29, 2004 Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 Thought I'd just point it out for discussion, XFre86 4.4 final has been released. But there's quite a bit of controversy behind it becuase of Xfree's license chnage. Seems mandrake, debian, and gentoo (other too i think?) aren't planing on packaging this new release in their distros because of this. Maybe this is a good thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted February 29, 2004 Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 and what is the change exactly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HJ Posted February 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 Take a look here.. http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/18/13122...3.shtml?tid=104 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 (edited) thanks for the link... argh... Edited March 1, 2004 by Ghil Vertefeuille Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 The adding of an advertising clause in the license which is GPL incompatible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 I'm really looking forward to all distros getting behind Keith Packard's work -- much more exciting, much more going on. Seems he has ATI behind him already, NVidia to follow soon. The XFree stuff was hardly moving, now is the chance to drop it and move on to something that's moving forward. Seems with their new license the XFree people just created the glitch that was needed to make them irrelevant. Want to know more? Check out these links: http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_m...ssages/731395/3 (dutch, but check out the screenshots -- the video played on, with the translucent drop down box on top of it, video shining through..) Freedesktop stuff mostly from Keith: http://freedesktop.org/Software/xserver with cool screenshots: http://freedesktop.org/~keithp/screenshots/ Most of that stuff is still rendered off-screen by the cpu, not the graphics card, but they are working on that, and at that point, linux will get the coolest graphical environment in terms of eyecandy features (forget apple..)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 will be cool ;p I'm looking forward to that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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