Careful, Edgy may get xorg 7.1 real soon

Nathan kemotaha at gmail.com
Wed Sep 20 19:15:17 BST 2006


X-server what's that.  Does that have something to do with the oval
thing next to my keyboard.  hmm.  I might have to look into this "X"
thing.  

=)

Nathan 



On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 11:56 -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/20/06, Steven Willoughby <steven.willoughby at utah.edu> wrote:
>         
>         
>         It's been at 7.1 for quite a while already:
>         
>         $ X -version
>         
>         X Window System Version 7.1.1
>         Release Date: 12 May 2006
>         X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
>         
>         
>         You were probably looking at the version number of the xorg
>         metapackage: 
>         
>         https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/58700
>         
>         Steven
> 
> Thank you for clearing this up.  However, if Ubuntu decides to merge
> any 
> differences between Debian and Ubuntu, as they often do, then it still
> might
> be something you want to look out for.  In any case, I just wanted to
> give a
> heads up since a broken X usually isn't a happy situation.
> 
>                                                             Joseph
> Smidt  
> 
> -- 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>        Joseph Smidt
>      jsmidt at byu.edu





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