I Guess Lenny Will Release
In September In October In November In December In January (2009) Later Still Whenever It Is Ready ( 848 votes ~ 2 comments )
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#2 Re: Debian Unstable gets X.org Posted by Steve (82.41.xx.xx) on Wed 13 Jul 2005 at 23:14 Right now I'm not aware of any major technical advantages of X.org however that is likely to change in the future. The xfree86 people made licensing changes to their distribution which percieved by the community as being .. not good. Almost immediately afterwards a lot of Linux distributors announced their intentions to migrate away from it - taking the code prior to the licensing change as their baseline. Debian was one of the earlier distributions to announce their intention to migrate, but due to the Sarge release the actual change took longer than other distributions. There are some changes from the xfree86 tree right now, but the main reason for changing is to get the changes that will occur in the future - the X.org people have a much more active developer community, which is also much more open than the previous xfree86 group. Hopefully this means that good things should happen in the future. Changes are being discussed right now, and whilst some of them are merely implementation details (such as a more modular build system which will ease things for distributors and developers, but be largely irrelevent to users) and some of them involve new extensions, speedups, and drivers. If you'd like to find more information the X.org website has lots of details - and the licensing switch has been discussed a lot online - such as in these previous Slashdot discussions I found: X.Org Foundation Releases X11R6.7 X Window System Mandrake Linux goes to X.org FreeBSD moves to X.org Slackware Chooses X.org Server over XFree86 ... XFree86: List of Rejecting Distributors Grows First Experiences with X.org? - question
Right now I'm not aware of any major technical advantages of X.org however that is likely to change in the future.
The xfree86 people made licensing changes to their distribution which percieved by the community as being .. not good. Almost immediately afterwards a lot of Linux distributors announced their intentions to migrate away from it - taking the code prior to the licensing change as their baseline.
Debian was one of the earlier distributions to announce their intention to migrate, but due to the Sarge release the actual change took longer than other distributions.
There are some changes from the xfree86 tree right now, but the main reason for changing is to get the changes that will occur in the future - the X.org people have a much more active developer community, which is also much more open than the previous xfree86 group. Hopefully this means that good things should happen in the future.
Changes are being discussed right now, and whilst some of them are merely implementation details (such as a more modular build system which will ease things for distributors and developers, but be largely irrelevent to users) and some of them involve new extensions, speedups, and drivers.
If you'd like to find more information the X.org website has lots of details - and the licensing switch has been discussed a lot online - such as in these previous Slashdot discussions I found:
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