XFree86 supported? no longer

havner havner at smtp.kamp.pl
Wed Jan 12 13:53:40 CET 2005


On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:53:56AM +0100, The Undefined wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:46:24AM +0100, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> > IMO current XFree86 version (4.4.0) should be removed from ac/supported.
> > - it's vulnerable (at least libXpm, probably more)
> > - it's rarely usable - current gtk+2 and KDE require X.org >= 6.8.0
> but X11 doesn't work correctly on sparc64 (for /me)
> On debian list i saw some reports about problems with keyboard with X11
> too.

6.8 doesn't. 6.7 does work and afaik is enough for kde and gtk2. Since i
own sparc I'm going to investigate this keyboard problems on 6.8.

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