The Progress Of X.Org 7.4
If all goes according to plan, X.Org 7.4 will finally be released this month. This release isn't quite as elaborate as X.Org 7.3, which introduced input hot-plugging, EXA enhancements, and RandR 1.2 to just name a few features, but X.Org 7.4 is another update better enhancing this X server. In this article, we are presenting a release overview of the features to be found in X.Org 7.4, what's been delayed, and how this release is panning out.
X Server 1.5.0 / X.Org 7.4 was originally slated for release in March of 2008, but that has come and passed. It wasn't until the end of February that Red Hat's Adam Jackson had stepped up to the plate as the release manager and began X.Org 7.4 release planning due to Red Hat wanting to ship X.Org 7.4 in Fedora 9. Fedora 9 will not be shipping with X.Org 7.4 / X Server 1.5 final, but instead a development pre-release. While the Intel driver is the only one that supports this feature in time for X.Org 7.4, Fedora 9 is the first distribution also shipping with kernel mode-setting support.
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