XFree86 gone from Fedora Core? WHY!?

[Prasanth Kumar]

On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 19:22 -0400, William M. Quarles wrote:
> Mike Chambers wrote:
> > Sounds to me like someone has a problem because they have
> > software/something that requires/uses/whatever with XFree and conflicts
> > with X.org or something along those lines (and yes I"m assuming and know
> > what assuming means).  But why the hubbub if not?
> > 
> 
> Actually, that is part of my problem, but not all of it.  Like I said,
> my main problem is that X.org is an entity that appeals to corporations,
> not to a free community of developers.  It sounds like Red Hat made use
> of their muscle in the Fedora Project to test out X.org code because
> that's what appeals to them as a corporation.
> 
> Since you asked, the applications in question are from the GATOS
> project, which has developed the next generation DRM drivers for the ATI
> graphics cards, as well as applications that make use of their capture,
> TV-output and TV tuning capabilities. <http://gatos.sf.net>.
> 
> Peace,
> William
> 
> 
> 

I don't think Red Hat are the only developers switching to X.org. For
one thing Debian is also. Furthermore key people like Jim Gettys and
Keith Packard are associated with X.org. These guys have been working on
X related stuff well before XFree86 even existed.

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Regards,
Prasanth