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From: Eldad Zack <eldad@××××××××××××××.cx>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:20:12
Message-Id: 1077282994.19071.5.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license by Peter Robinson
1 On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 13:47, Peter Robinson wrote:
2 > On Friday 20 February 2004 12:04, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
3 > > Basically I expect someone to step up and announce a fork with new, better
4 > > procedures etc. At that point XFree might give in or the fork might
5 > > continue and XFree will get a life similar to that of X.org
6 > Well there's already the successor of X in the works:
7 > http://www.y-windows.org/about.html
8 > There's still a lot work needed before it can be used for every day work but
9 > the concept sounds promising.
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11 Which means it won't be ready anytime soon.
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13 There's KP's xserver, and there's also the fork of XFree, xouvert(.org),
14 which already released a tarball you can (try to) compile.
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