Hello! On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 11:12:50AM -0500, Nathan Kroll wrote: > I have recently become aware of the fact that Debian is still using > XFree86 4.3 on all of its releases and seems to have no plans on > converting to xorg. Is this true? Is there development underway for > make xorg the new default x server? As seen in DWN at <http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/debian-news-2004/msg00032.html>: | Future of Debian X11 Packages. Fabio Massimo Di Nitto, the current | Debian X11 release manager, [9]inquired about which direction these | packages should go. Because of a licensing change Debian can no longer | use [10]XFree86 as upstream. Keith Packard [11]suggested moving away | from a monolithic source package and switching to [12]X.org as the new | upstream. Daniel Stone [13]described several of the options. | | 9. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/06/msg00979.html | 10. http://www.xfree86.org/ | 11. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/06/msg01006.html | 12. http://www.x.org/ | 13. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/06/msg01051.html AFAIK so far nothing has been decided yet as currently the XSF focuses on the Sarge release... > I'm just wondering because it seems odd to me that debian isn't > jumping on it since everything else (in unstable at least) seems to be > very up-to-date. To quote Branden Robinson from <http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/06/msg00677.html>: | From my perspective, we're not in a big hurry. I think changing | Debian's shipping sample implementation at this point, when we're -- | err -- "about to release" would be a bad idea. This is true especially since Debian has to support some hardware architectures which aren't supported upstream at all. > Just looking for any info on possible debian adaption or if anyone > know what is so much better about xorg over 4.3 (besides the license > stuff). Perhaps best read the (long) thread starting at <http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/06/msg00411.html> for some aspects. HTH, Flo
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