Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux headed for disaster? | Date | Mon, 06 Dec 1999 15:26:34 +0000 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de said: > working on drivers for graphics cards for XFree86 a long time now I > know pretty well that usually it's just a nice dream that anyone out > there would take the free sources and fix even small bugs for hardware > _many_ users have and suffer but which I don't have for testing and > fixing.
That's partly because the development model of XFree86 is less open than that of the Linux kernel.
Also, I don't know if I'm a representative sample, but it took me a lot longer to find my way around the XFree86 source enough to be productive than it took me to find my way around the kernel source.
I think that for these reasons, along with others, the Linux kernel gets more feedback and patches from random users than X does.
(Please no flame war about the openness of XFree86 development - 'less open' is all I said).
-- dwmw2
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