Xorg X11R6.7 has been released

[dpw2atox]

Well today Xorg released X11R6.7 which is a fork of the well known XFree86 project. It was forked specifically at 4.4.0-rc2 and contains all updates which are not a part of the 1.1 license XFree86 now uses. Amoung these differences Xorg also updated Fontconfig, Freetype, the render extension and render library, as well as many other minior changes such as binary support for both Xorg and XFree86 modules. The full changelog can be viewed here at "http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.7.0/doc/RELNOTES3.html#3" and I think that everyone which is able to should try and support this project. Xorg has also stated that they plan on making another 1 to 2 releases this year which I find very exciting. Before with XFree86 we would typically wait roughly 1 year or so between releases and by the time a release was offered many parts of X were very outdated and the lack of new features and patch acceptance also is a big deterrant to X. Now with Xorg they are trying to make a few very good releases every year, keep X using fairly recent software as well as add new features to improve the performance of X and openly accept developers and patches. With all these new changes I feel that Xorg will create a much better xserver for everyone.

[SuLinUX]

Distros like SuSE have there own version of Xfree86 which is much better than your normal xfree86, upgrading to xorg can give you worse fonts. I would hightly recommend SuSE uses stay with there version of Xfree86 or wait until 9.1 is released.

[skamp]

Just a note to say that I'm running X11R6.7.0 right now, and the drivers are working just fine. Installing them for X11R6.7.0 was no different than it was for XFree86 4.4.0.

[GlaDiaC]

Originally Posted by SuLinUX

Distros like SuSE have there own version of Xfree86 which is much better than your normal xfree86, upgrading to xorg can give you worse fonts. I would hightly recommend SuSE uses stay with there version of Xfree86 or wait until 9.1 is released.

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/sup...8/i386/suse90/

[SuLinUX]

Originally Posted by GlaDiaC

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/sup...8/i386/suse90/

That would be fine but use at your own risk.

[andyrock]

I think that SUSE 9.1 (and SLES9) will have 4.4rc2 with some suse patches added.
9.2 will be based on X.org

[CrLf]

Since this seems to be the beginning of a new era in X Window System development (an improvement I think), It would be nice to know if nvidia will be supporting X.Org, right now we are a bit in the dark.
I know that the current nvidia drivers work ok with X.org's Xserver but I'm talking about the future. It sure would be nice to see nvidia sponsoring X.org (maybe with its logo next to IBM's and Sun's on www.x.org).

[dpw2atox]

I feel that Nvidia will officially support xorg. If anything they may simply wait to see which version becomes the most used one and then adjust their drivers accordingly.

[CrLf]

Originally Posted by dpw2atox

I feel that Nvidia will officially support xorg. If anything they may simply wait to see which version becomes the most used one and then adjust their drivers accordingly.

I think that too. But an official sponsoring would also be good and, as X.Org claims to be a more open organization, nvidia could both reinforce the idea of the "brand to choose" on Linux, help drive innovation on the X Window System and calm down those who are afraid of nvidia dropping support for their favorite OS (the same people who repeatedly ask nvidia to opensource their drivers).