XOrg vs XFree86

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Fri Mar 26 20:31:20 UTC 2004


On 26 Mar 2004 15:23:04 -0500 Chris A Czerwinski <chrisczerwinski at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> Have I missed something? 
> How come XFree86 has been dropped?
> or better still can XFree86 run on FC?

the XFree86 folks changed their licensing, which has triggered
a fork. XFree86 will seemingly be included in fewer open source
projects in the future.

Fedora isn't the only OS that is dropping XFree86 (just as it isn't
the only OS that has stuck at MySQL 3 rather than jumping to 4.)

richard
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