On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:27:52PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > Is Debian going to switch to X.org? > > This Slashdot article says Slackware is: > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/31/2317246&mode=nested&tid=104&tid=106&tid=185&tid=189 > > Ananamous Coward writes "Some big distros had already dumped XFree86 for > X.org for license reasons, but now Slackware, one of the most classical > and stable ones, has announced in its changelog for slackware-current > that they are switching to X.org, mostly for compatibility reasons. > Looks like X.org is now the future of X for Linux ..." > > If this has been discussed here, I totally missed it.
Daniel Stone has made several pronouncements to this list on the subject[1][2][3][4][5]. Whether his statements should be taken as binding upon all Debian Developers, or reflective of the consensus of this mailing list, are questions I must leave to the reader to resolve. [1] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/04/msg00298.html [2] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/04/msg00440.html [3] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/04/msg00488.html [4] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/05/msg00366.html [5] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/05/msg00431.html -- G. Branden Robinson | Somebody once asked me if I thought Debian GNU/Linux | sex was dirty. I said, "It is if [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you're doing it right." http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Woody Allen
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