[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.17.0

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 04:23:03PM -0500, dclarke at blastwave.org wrote:
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> > On February 4, 2015 at 12:39 PM Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Here's the 1.17 release -- just a few patches since the last RC.
> > 
> > Thanks to all for making this a really fun release to work on!
> > 
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> > http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/xserver/xorg-server-1.17.0.tar.gz
> > SHA256:
> > dde7ecf6a5591c22394e467f7a4c8c33e60eebfafcb0bfaf2f59c560002f4d86
> >  xorg-server-1.17.0.tar.gz
> 
> 
> Thank you very much for this.
> 
> A question that I have, however, is how does one simply decide to
> install this?  Suppose, as a not entire too hypothetical case, a person
> had a Debian based laptop and they simply wanted to build all of the
> Xorg bits and have them reside in /opt/Xorg perhaps. Is there a web page
> somewhere or a case where someone has done this sort of thing?

http://who-t.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/testing-x-servers-from-git.html
has been working for me for a couple of years now.

Cheers,
   Peter
 
> Part of the reason why I ask is that I do have Debian and Red Hat and
> other things ( like Solaris ) and would really like to see a full build
> from scratch actually up and running from the moment I login *with* the
> added safety of not destroying whatever the vendor ships. Also, I have a
> snazzy large touch screen monitor and don't really want to run a
> Microsoft project just to get my monitor features to all work.
> 
> Thank you for any helpful reply.