X servers for Lunatics
Ranitha
ranitha at optusnet.com.au
Sat Mar 20 13:57:17 GMT 2004
Hi all,
After a saturday morning (Melbourne time) on #lunar, I gathered that
lunar linux will not be officialy distributing the XFree86 4.4+ servers
due to the recent licence change.
As far as I can tell two alternatives exist,
- the freedesktop.org xserver, being developed by Keith Packard (which
I'm told is not stable enough for our purposes)
- X.org's free fork of XFree86 4.4.0-rc2 (ie: the last release before
the licence change)
jmhodges informes me that crater has a module for the fd.o xserver but
no module for the X.org server. I'm requesting that the lunar devs look
into this lest we hit a brick wall with regards to future X servers.
Some urls:
- Info on the different x servers hosted at fdo.org
http://fooishbar.org/daniel/blog//tech/x
- info/downloads for the free X.org fork of XFree86
http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/xorg
Regards,
Ranitha
PS: haha I already asked tchan to no avail but I'm lobbying for
anonymous cvs access to the lunar repositories :P (so consider this
email a request for that as well)
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