Pull off AIGLX repoistory?

Benjy Grogan benjy.grogan at gmail.com
Wed Jul 26 20:33:15 UTC 2006


On 7/26/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 July 2006 13:30, Denis Leroy wrote:
> > This goes beyond binary-only drivers. What if you were using FC-5 as a
> > major development platform for your own Xorg-based application (or
> > gnome, or kde), then an FC-5 update breaks your code in a major way...
>
> And you really shouldn't be using a Fedora release as a Major Development
> Platform.  That's not what Fedora is designed and meant to be.  That's a far
> better job for RHEL where you've got promised ABI/API stability, a very long
> lifespan, and a lot of effort to ensure things don't change with the updates.
> Fedora is a more free flowing tool for evaluating technology, where things
> can and do churn, change, and sometimes break.

[updates-testing] would be the perfect place to first release the
X.Org 7.1 updates for FC5 and it might even get a few more people to
help test things there.  What exactly will happen to a user who has
nvidia or ATI drivers installed on FC5?  Will X.Org revert to the open
source drivers or simply crash?

Benjy

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