XFree86 supported? no longer

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:53:40PM +0100, havner wrote:
> 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.

For KDE it is; but 6.7 didn't contain libXfixes which new gtk+2 uses
(optionally, but if it's built on X.org 6.8, it won't run on 6.7 without
libXfixes).


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