Ol�, Eu recebi com certo espanto essa not�cia tb...eu costumo visitar o change-log, o Slack sempre tradicional e talz....mas parece que o modelo de desenvolvimento do xfree86 ficou paia, nao sei ao certo, to por fora disso, falta tempo pra acompanhar tais coisas....
[]�s Tiago Vinicius On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 10:33:32 -0400 Joao Paulo Liberato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ainda n�o vi esse assunto comentado na lista, nem estava sabendo disso. > Instalei o slackware 9.1 na m�quina de um colega de trabalho. Depois > instalei o slackpkg e mandei atualizar tudo. Reparei que o xfree86 n�o > foi atualizado. Achei estranho, n�o entendi o que estava acontecendo, > imaginei que pudesse ser um bug no slackpkg. > 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: > > ----------- > 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. > --------------- > > 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. > > -- > GUS-BR - Grupo de Usu�rios Slackware - BR > http://www.slackwarebrasil.org/ > http://www.linuxmag.com.br/mailman/listinfo/slack-users -- GUS-BR - Grupo de Usu�rios Slackware - BR http://www.slackwarebrasil.org/ http://www.linuxmag.com.br/mailman/listinfo/slack-users
