From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199910211134.GAA16627@lists.linuxppc.org> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:32:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Kevin_Hendricks Reply-To: Kevin_Hendricks Subject: Re: SuSE Rage 128 Xserver Source and XFree 3.3.6 To: luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi, >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. 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? I guess I shouldn't complain, Sun won't let me release the JDK source to others (just diffs). Kevin -- Kevin B. Hendricks Associate Professor of Operations and Information Technology Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A-3K7 CANADA khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca, (519) 661-3874, fax: 519-661-3959 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/