Re: Freedesktop vs. Xfree86, xprint etc.
From: I R A Darth Aggie (hfrarg_at_nttvr2x3.pbgfr.arg)
Date: 12/17/04
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Date: 17 Dec 2004 20:12:00 GMT
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:51:07 +0100,
J.O. Aho <user@example.net>, in
<328quvF3j873hU1@individual.net> wrote:
>+ I R A Darth Aggie wrote:
>+ > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:21:07 GMT,
>+
>+ > My understanding is that ATI contributed to XFree86 and their mods sat
>+ > for months without moving forward. I'll let you guess who they'll be
>+ > more likely to work with.
>+ >
>+ > Of course, most of the distributions are moving x.org, and so the
>+ > vendors will follow.
>+
>+ At thgis stage the vendors don't have to choose which one to support, when
>+ they can just make one driver which works in both.
Agreed. Currently, that's just a fortunate circumstance for XFree86.
I suspect that will change, and sooner rather than later.
James
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