[X-Unix] !@#$@!#$%$% X11 (in Leopard of course)!

[Stroller]

On 17 Dec 2007, at 23:19, Eugene wrote:
>
> BTW, as of Leopard, Apple switched over to X.org and away
> from XFree86.  There's been a lot of gripes on x11-users.

It should be noted that almost everyone else has switched, too. The  
problem occurred a couple of years ago, and probably only just missed  
10.4. I would be surprised to hear that XFree86 is still alive or is  
under any development at all - a number of XFree86's own major  
contributors forked off the codebase and then re-wossisnamed their  
own contributions after the license change.

Mind you, I don't know that this is a reason for Apple to switch. X11  
is very old & stable, Apple probably need few updates from external  
sources and they could probably have forked off quite happily at the  
same time. Meanwhile Xorg's development seems to have been quite  
vigourous since the split, and I would imagine it's developers  
concentrate on Linux and the other fully open-source platforms.

Stroller.