[CS-FSLUG] X.org was Re: A new distro model for the real-world desktop

[Eduardo Sánchez]

On Thursday 01 January 2009 17.40.53 Ed Hurst wrote:
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> Which brings up another question, perhaps worthy of a separate
> thread: Is it just me, or is X.org really badly broken lately? I'm
> reading what seems like a rapid rise in complaints about stuff
> directly related to X.org on lots of forums. Debian's devs say it's
> not working properly, and they simply cannot script the X server
> setup as they had in the past. When I run X configure utility
> directly, it's leaving out a *lot* of stuff it used to write
> automatically. There are other complaints about breaking configs
> carried over from the previous version. I noticed the nv driver will
> no longer support what my chipset and monitor can do, without
> significant artifacts.

Slackware's 12.2 xorg version number is 1.4.2, and Patrick Volkerding 
halted upgrading of X versions "until more testing is done". That's how 
upgrades should be handled. KISS, "if it ain't broken don't fix it", and 
the like. How difficult is that?

Blessings,

Eduardo

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