On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Kevin_Hendricks wrote:

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So is the Rqge 128 driver stuff already in 3.9.16 ?

According to the list of Xservers given on the XFree86 org page, it is NOT 
included.  They have completely restructured Xservers for that release.  Now 
they all start with the base Xserver while calls up various shared-libraries to 
handle driver specifics / acceleration, etc.

Given XFree86 policy of not releasing source, (according to their website they 
specifically request that people *not* join just to get access to pre-release 
source).  I hope SuSE simply just posts the source.  

In this case people don't join `just to get access to pre-release source', but
`to port it to PPC'. That's real development, so I see no problems with joining
XFree86.

This whole process simply makes no sense.  Why give development source only to a 
body that can not release it for others?  Not exactly using the strength of the 
free software movement?

Those can make time-limited beta binaries.

I don't like it that much neither, and many agree with the not-liking. That's
why there exist 3.9.x snapshots...

Greetings,
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds


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