On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:27:52PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > Is Debian going to switch to X.org? > > This Slashdot article says Slackware is: > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/31/2317246&mode=nested&tid=104&tid=106&tid=185&tid=189 > > Ananamous Coward writes "Some big distros had already dumped XFree86 for > X.org for license reasons, but now Slackware, one of the most classical > and stable ones, has announced in its changelog for slackware-current > that they are switching to X.org, mostly for compatibility reasons. > Looks like X.org is now the future of X for Linux ..." > > If this has been discussed here, I totally missed it.
Daniel Stone has made several pronouncements to this list on the
subject[1][2][3][4][5].
Whether his statements should be taken as binding upon all Debian
Developers, or reflective of the consensus of this mailing list, are
questions I must leave to the reader to resolve.
[1] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/04/msg00298.html
[2] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/04/msg00440.html
[3] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/04/msg00488.html
[4] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/05/msg00366.html
[5] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/05/msg00431.html
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