A look at Slackware 10.0
Posted Jun 28, 2004 20:55 UTC (Mon) by
allesfresser (subscriber, #216)
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A look at Slackware 10.0 by DaveK
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A look at Slackware 10.0
I am not aware of any others that have done so.
Patrick definitely listened to his users on this subject (oh, that all developers would be so kind...!):
Sun May 30 01:06:39 PDT 2004
x/: Switched to X11R6.7.0 from X.Org. Thanks to those who sent comments to
slackware.com. Seems the community has spoken, because the opinions were
more than 4 to 1 in favor of using the X.Org release as the default version
of X. I think I've heard just about every side to this issue now, and it was
only after careful consideration and testing that this decision was made.
It's primarily (as is usual around here) a technical decision. Nearly
everyone else is going with X.Org and it seems to me that sticking with
XFree86 it spite of this would be asking for compatibility trouble (indeed,
we saw some issues between X.Org and XFree86 4.4.0 until a few things in
XFree86 were patched). I also noticed that the ATI Radeon binary drivers
designed for XFree86 4.3.0 do not work with XFree86 4.4.0, but do work with
the X.Org release. Something I'm *not* in favor of is dragging around two
nearly identical projects, so XFree86 4.4.0 has been moved to the
/pub/slackware/unsupported/ directory on the FTP site.
I'd like to take this moment to thank the XFree86 Project for all the truly
amazing work they've done all these years, and to wish the project the best
of luck. Slackware owes the XFree86 Project a debt of gratitude and will
always include the XFree86 acknowledgement, even if we are no longer
shipping XFree86.
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