Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Christopher Stone
<chris.stone at gmail.com> 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??
>

He is paid by Red Hat to work on X, not to be your personal slave. You
want that find out what it costs first.. I am guessing around
100k/year for that kind of nightmare. Otherwise stay with F8 until
your card is supported. Especially since he would need to make sure
that pretty much every X app is compiled twice with one with the old
API and one with the new one.

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