Xorg 7.4 release plan

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Wed Feb 27 08:04:34 PST 2008


zhengyi wrote:
> Being a Newbie, I wan't to say some words( sorry, may be stupid ):
> 
> I don't think include many driver packages is a good idea.
> Hardware fades out more speedly than software.
> 
> I think it is reasonable that the X system just provide the core 
> functionalities(the forced modules).
> All the drivers will appear in the "Driver modules"(An optional module).
> Different users can download the different driver module according to
> their hardware platform.

That's the way we've done it since the X11R7.0 release in 2005.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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