On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:41:41AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > This project was christened XWin.org. freedesktop.org has existed since > the late 1990s, basically as just Havoc with a bunch of standards (e.g. > .desktop, NETWM). In mid-2003, XWin and freedesktop made the decision to > essentially merge, and XWin folded all its services into > freedesktop.org. > > fd.o took that opportunity to extend immensely (and got its own machine > for the first time), and ended up being somewhat of a focal point for X > development. But it was started years before we rocked along. Thanks for the information. As you may have noticed, I updated the FAQ shortly after this. (I'm slowly getting caught up on non-emergency -x traffic...) [...] > Please s/FreeDesktop.Org/freedesktop.org/. Done. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you don't think for yourself, Debian GNU/Linux | others will think for you -- to branden@debian.org | their advantage. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Harold Gordon
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