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Thu, 20 Mar 2003
Open Jaguar
Apple is providing a free download of Open Jaguar 0.2, a package of open source software including newer versions of Apache & PHP, as well as MySQL and other software.
The following packages are included with Open Jaguar:
- Apache 2.0.44
- PHP 4.3.1
- MySQL 4.0.10-gamma
- postgreSQL 7.3.2
- ftpd chroot corrected
- tcpflow 0.20
- nmap 3.0
- Argus 2.0.5
- imap4 Darwin
- proFTPD 1.2.8
- mcrypt 2.6.4
More information & links to individual packages is available from http://almisr.online.fr/openjaguar/.
XFree86 undergoing major changes
The XFree86 project, which has moved pretty slowly until now, is now undergoing a major shake-up.
XFree86 has setup a public forum for the open discussion of issues and concerns that people may have about the future of X, XFree86, and related technologies. More information about the mailing list & archives is available here.
Keith Packard has been removed from the XFree86 Core Team for "conduct that is not in the interests of the XFree86 Project". Specifically he has been privately seeking out support for a fork of XFree86 that he would lead, and has been privately working to form a closed committee of invited "vested interests" to address the concerns he has with XFree86.
Team member Alan Cox says:
"XFree86 is hard to get involved with usefully, resistant to cool ideas and strongly wedded to an occasional not rolling regular release model. ... X has to evolve, X has to do cool stuff, X has to let people break stuff, X has to delegate trust to driver maintainers far more. ... As a driver maintainer X is a painful project, not because of the code ... but because of the project structure and lack of delegation."
You can keep up with the ongoing story at Hack The Planet.
Dvorak predicts Apple will move to Intel
Self-proclaimed Apple "expert" John Dvorak, who loves to predict Apple's death every few months, now predicts that Apple will switch to Intel within 18 months.
At least he isn't predicting Apple's death, for a change.