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

[Eugene]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 03:16:09PM CST, Stroller <macmonster at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

XFree86 is dead.  The Core Team disbanded itself in December 2003.

> 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.

For a more detailed story on the sordid fall of the XFree86 Project:

<http://iiichan.net/stuff/xfree86.html>


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Eugene
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/