X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules
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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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| One of the developments merged into 7.1 was the AIGLX project, dedicated
| to the important goal of providing better eye candy for Linux users
| worldwide. Since this code had gone into the X.org mainline, the
| Fedora-based AIGLX developers decided that there was no reason to continue
| to maintain their own version. So the Fedora AIGLX repository stopped
| seeing updates; Fedora users wanting to use the current AIGLX code could
| get it straight from X.org 7.1.
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