Confirmei o xfree que estava instalado na minha m�quina e era o 4.4.0. Voltei para a m�quina do colega, e estava o 4.3.0. Mandei atualizar de novo, e nada.
Resolvi ent�o logar no ftp e baixar os pacotes manualmente. Qual foi meu espanto, quando cheguei l�, e percebi que os pacotes do xfree n�o estavam mais! Em seu lugar, estavam os pacotes x11-*!
Segue abaixo o texto que retirei do changelog do slackware-current, do dia 30/05/2004:
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x/: Switched to X11R6.7.0 from X.Org. Thanks to those who sent comments to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems the community has spoken, because the opinions were
more than 4 to 1 in favor of using the X.Org release as the default version
of X. I think I've heard just about every side to this issue now, and it was
only after careful consideration and testing that this decision was made.
It's primarily (as is usual around here) a technical decision. Nearly
everyone else is going with X.Org and it seems to me that sticking with
XFree86 it spite of this would be asking for compatibility trouble (indeed,
we saw some issues between X.Org and XFree86 4.4.0 until a few things in
XFree86 were patched). I also noticed that the ATI Radeon binary drivers
designed for XFree86 4.3.0 do not work with XFree86 4.4.0, but do work with
the X.Org release. Something I'm *not* in favor of is dragging around two
nearly identical projects, so XFree86 4.4.0 has been moved to the
/pub/slackware/unsupported/ directory on the FTP site.
I'd like to take this moment to thank the XFree86 Project for all the truly
amazing work they've done all these years, and to wish the project the best
of luck. Slackware owes the XFree86 Project a debt of gratitude and will
always include the XFree86 acknowledgement, even if we are no longer
shipping XFree86.
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Qual a opini�o dos colegas de lista sobre essa mudan�a? Quando esse assunto surgiu aqui, semanas atr�s, o sentimento geral era que o Patrick estava certo em manter-se no xfree86. E agora, oq vcs acham?
[]s, JP.
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