[wplug] Is XFree86 4.4 worth it?

[Jonathan S Billings]

I know I've heard that RMS has declared that the new XFree86 license is
not GPL compatible, and that the debian folks are looking into it.  I
haven't read it, since most license politics gives me a headache.  

I know that this release will be very useful to me, since I support a
couple systems that have the Intel 845 chipset, which is kind of broken 
in 4.3.  Most of the changes I see (listed here:
http://www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/RELNOTES2.html#2) aren't features that the
user might notice, if they were upgrading from an already-working X
server.

jonathan

On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 22:30, chris at thistlethwaite.net wrote:
> Is anyone excited about the new release of XFree86??  I
> was going to DL it today, but I wanted to see if anyone
> else tried it out.  I'm just not sure if its worth a
> couple hours on the phoneline.  Also, what's the deal
> with the new licensing?  Everyone is freaking out about
> it, I read through the changes and didn't see anything
> that would make me not use it.  There are a handfull of
> distros dropping 4.4 and just using 4.3.
> Thanks, 
> Chris
> 
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