Modular X.org and the Unichrome forks.

Luc Verhaegen libv at skynet.be
Wed Dec 21 20:24:52 PST 2005


On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 03:13:00PM +1100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > For X.org
> >
> > For distributors,
> 
> > As for the projects themselves,
> 
> Now where abouts do the users come into this, how does a user who
> knows nothing other than there is a VIA chip in my board, decide who
> rules, and how stable that is v the other.. distributions still have
> to bless one over the other as they have to make a default, no matter
> what they do they aren't going to have a popup dialog explaining to
> the user the political minefield and why one is better than another..
> 
> Dave.
> 
The user tends to mainly follow the distributor.

If they like to go beyond that, they can choose which fork they prefer 
for themselves.

Luc Verhaegen.



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