On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:43:24PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I expect a consortium of GNU/Linux and *BSD vendors to coalsece around > the efforts of the Free Desktop organization[3], one of which is likely > to be a fork of the XFree86 code from CVS HEAD, probably as of 12 > Feburary 2004 (immediately prior to the application of the new license). > Furthermore, code to which the X-Oz license applies will have to removed > as well. Specifically, this comprises two commits made to XFree86 CVS > on 8 October 2003[4][5], which implement automatic configuration of the > XFree86 X server, obviating the need for an XF86Config file in some > cases.
>From my survey of the various autoconfig options being used in different distros currently, it looks like there are a variety of workable replacements for the autoconfig code in the field right now, but there is no unified solution. Right now I'm building a modified version of the solution knoppix uses for Debian, hopefully in time for sarge's release, but as it stands the lack of a unified solution seems more like annoying redundancy than anything. I'd personally like to help at freedesktop.org in the future in getting some sort of built-in solution that all distros can use to make our lives a little easier. That'll take care of one issue. - David Nusinow
