On Tuesday 02 September 2003 06:00, csj wrote: > Some ex-X coders have already forked XFree86. There's already an > established dri project at sourceforge which is responsible for > creating the more bleeding edge 3D support for X (note the use of the > relative "more").
Judging from all the pother attempts at establishing a new graphic frontend, the only thing that will keep Xouvert from just vanishing is - sadly - its X heritage. DRI is all nice but it lacks vendor support (Radeon 9[5-9]00? no chance unless the Weather Channel gets nice once more) and if a vendor is so nice to publish drivers there's a guarantee somewhere in the GPL (which doesn't even apply to Xfree) that some f***** zealots will curse them to hell and back for not being open source. There's a problem of legacy (X itself) and mentality (hardcore GNU dunces) which has been successfully keeping back *nix from the masses since inception. It's middle management all over again. And thanks for picking up my point. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
