Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:40:13PM -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:23:47PM -0400, Jason Tang wrote:
> >> The only problem being that this release is incompatible with current
> >> nvidia drivers.  Granted, I'm aware of the Fedora position regarding
> >> non-OSS, but this Xorg issue has completely destroyed many user's
> >> confidence in the dev team.
> >>
> >> Most users could care less about supposed 'valid' reasons - that fact
> >> is: No 3D acceleration == No F9 adoption (or worse, an eroding user
> >> base).  Lets not play this game with F10.
> >
> > Well I'm an Intel & Radeon user and Xorg in F9 is dramatically better
> > better for all my machines. So, yes, if new code improves life for the
> > open source drivers, lets do this again & again in future releaes. I don't
> > want my desktop experiance held hostage by one company with binary drivers.
> > I chose hardware which is supportable so I can get the best & latest open
> > source has to offer.
> 
> Why the H.E. double hockey sticks do people think proving
> compatibility packages for nVidia users will somehow hold the desktop
> hostage for everyone else?
> 
> I do not understand why ajax could not provide compatibility rpms for
> nVidia users?  Is he not paid by redhat?  I mean just how difficult
> can it be to provide F8 xorg rpms on F9 for nVidia users??

The compatability RPMs already exist - its called F8. It is completely
unsustainable to package 2 complete versions of the same package for
the same release.

Dan.
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