Don Head wrote:
>
> I'm sure he probably ment "distribution", not "OS".
>
> Don Head
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vandoorselaere Yoann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 1:09 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] XFree86 v4.0?
>
> Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > "Kevin Eldridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I was wondering if you all are going to be incorporating XFree86
> > > v4.0 into this release of Mandrake or waiting until the next
> > > release. I figure since you all have probably already written the OS
> > > around XFree86 (Well at least partially anyway), if it would require
> > > a major overhaul to the OS. If not a rewrite?
You can put XFree86-4 (compiled against the mdk6 libc of course) on a
mandrake 6 and all X apps 'll still work : the X protocol is the same
for 10 years....
The Uni* spirit is "small is beautiful": cut a problem on small problems
and just fix them one by one. Linux is made of "small" components
(kernel/libs/utilities/Xserver/Xapps): each one does a "small" thing but
it does it fast. And as it is simple, it's quite bug free.
The other model (MS ones) where you put all in one big thing force you
to rebuild the whole OS. Neither does Linux & others Unices.
