Announcing Fedora 9 Alpha

Xbcomp is reputed, by its main developer Daniel Stone, to be a slow, horrible mess which needs
to be rewritten so that it's part of the server. There are X Developer Summit 2007 slides that
talk a bit about it here: http://www.fooishbar.org/talks/xds2007-input.pdf

I don't know how much of that proposed work has been done, but the need for it seemed to be
confirmed during OLPCs investigations into how long it took to improve boot speed. They found
that xkbcomp was sucking up 1.5s due to generating a new map each time, which would then be
deleted.