Somewhat OT XFree86 question (maybe M. A. Harris will speak up)

[Alan Cox]

> 2-will redhat support any competing window systems (or provide them as
> options)

Its a project. You want to package Xdirectfb thats great.

> 3-does anyone know if keith packard and the suse crew are still working
> on xrender are there competing options out there

Keith is working on cool stuff still yes. Whether XFree will pick it
up I don't know but I hope so. Someone has already packaged some 
versions of Keiths kdrive X server for x86 for low end systems, where it
is a definite win.