Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue May 20 21:27:14 UTC 2008


Jason Tang wrote:
> The only problem being that this release is incompatible with current
> nvidia drivers.  Granted, I'm aware of the Fedora position regarding
> non-OSS, but this Xorg issue has completely destroyed many user's
> confidence in the dev team.
> 
> Most users could care less about supposed 'valid' reasons - that fact
> is: No 3D acceleration == No F9 adoption (or worse, an eroding user
> base).  Lets not play this game with F10.

This is no game. Whenever Xorg ABI or kernel interface changes, 
proprietary drivers play catch-up.

Rahul




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