This week at LWN: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted by grouch on Aug 17, 2006 6:10 PM EDT
LWN.net; By Jonathan Corbet
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X11R7.1 (also known as X.org 7.1) was released back in May. It contains a number of useful new features, better 3D performance on a number of video adapters, and tons of fixes. It is, in general, the platform that X users probably want to be using. This release is not as widely used as it could be, however, and the associated story illustrates one of the costs of proprietary modules.

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