Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Jun 2008 22:00 UTC, submitted by capnix
Phoronix has up an article looking at the release of X Server 1.4.1. This maintenance release for X.Org, which many open-source operating systems depend upon for living in a graphically-rich world, is coming more than 200 days late and it doesn't even clear the BugZilla release blocker bug. According to Phoronix, there are more problems for X.org than just this one.
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2006-03-12
When its counted in days not months or years then its not bad. you can't say six and half month and it sound late anymore when everything seems to go past its deadline KDE; OS X; and my personal favorite Vista.
Its strange that releases that are regular like say linux are not hailed with the positives.
The summary is as usual overly critical, and the whole money offer thing is shameful.
The reality is since X became more modular releases like this matter less. What does matter is that this release has had some compelling features dropped. Although I suspect they will crop up in experimental form in a variety of distributions. Like pulseaudio did before it was truly ready, and we are talking months not years (touch wood) before they are released formally.
That is not to say that this is not a time for reflection, and look at what is working and what didn't, but its a long way from the xfree86 days may they never return.