What will be new in FC3 ?

[Scott Talbot]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 01:22 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Monday 18 October 2004 00:42, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 13:52 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > > I hope for one thing they will undo the mess they caused in FC2
> > > which made X unusable on Sony C1 Picturebooks.
> >
> > The licensing change in XFree86 which triggered the switch to Xorg is
> > not unique to FC2, and not an internally-driven change. Hope your
> > problem is solved with the newer versions, but I disagree with your
> > dropping the blame for the "mess they caused" on the Fedora team. They
> > are not culpable for your pain.
> 
> I know I was being unfair.
> But Fedora did decide to go over to Xorg,
> unlike most of the other distributions,
> so I suppose they must share the blame for any problems.
> 
> Basically, I was just hoping that if I screamed loudly enough
> someone on the Fedora team might hear me
> and decide to make sure this patch was applied in FC3.
> 
> There does seem to be something wrong with the bug-tracking system
> if a patch like this, posted on the bugzilla site,
> can be overlooked for 5 or 6 months.

	I am just curious,  I would think that no one at Fedora and maybe not
even Red Hat actually changes anything in Xorg (and what a mess that
would become if each distro did that!).

	I suspect that Xorg folks are a bit overwhelmed, and have not come to
terms with becoming the major player in linux desktop and that they have
not applied the patch in their own sources (or possibly not completed
testing to ensure it doesn't break other distros).

	So maybe you'll need to ask some questions over there (me too on
another issue).


Scott