The Final Straw

[Liam Proven]

On 8 September 2010 15:03, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 September 2010 14:44, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It is not the fault of X.org; it is a problem in Ubuntu's tools to
>> configure X.org.
>
>
> It is partially. (Several Ubuntu Xorg bugs that are upstream drivers
> having bitrotted.) The problem is that Xorg has only a very small
> number of people maintaining a huge and mouldering codebase, with a
> group of intrepid young code warriors swords-a-swashbuckling, and one
> old guy (Keith Packard) who remembers where all the bodies are buried
> and why. There's distro participation, but strangely little.
>
> But yes. Are these better tools in the repos? Do they work on Ubuntu?
> Can they be proposed for the core distro?

Ah. Fair points.

I'm not aware of any better tools in the repos or for Debian.

SUSE had the best I've seen, in the SAX2 module of YAST2. The next
best was in Corel LinuxOS which developed into Xandros. It lost the
plot a bit in later years, though.


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