x server

Phoronix: "Older ATI Catalyst drivers will not work on newer Linux distributions due to the proprietary driver not supporting a more recent Linux kernel or X Server version."

Linux Pro Magazine: "Bryce Harrington is agonizing over the nontrivial task of delivering a working X server for Ubuntu.

On the Ubuntu desktop mailing list he speaks of a flood of bug reports and appeals to improving the situation."

In the last release of Ubuntu (9.04) the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace key sequence normally used to kill the X server was disabled by default.

Apparently many people like to kill their X server this way so a workaround "dontzap" package was used to enable it.

With the latest Ubuntu release (9.10, aka Karmic) it's even simpler to enable it.

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Phoronix: "In late September there was a call by Peter Hutterer for a new X.Org release process that consisted of a six-month release cycle for the X Server, all development work to be done in feature branches and not Git master, and a three-stage development cycle."

IBM Developerworks: "In Part 3, the author compares the performance of the five in-kernel governors in both tuned and untuned states to show you how to optimize a Linux-based System x server."

Phoronix: "While the X.Org developers are responsible for a lot of critical code and much of it is quite old and massive, they are often challenged by hitting a release on time and often face multiple release schedules before coming close to delivering a new X Server / X.Org release"

IBM Developerworks: "This three-part series is your starting point for tuning your system for power efficiency.

In Part 1, get up to speed on the components and concepts you need to fine-tune a Linux-based System x server for power efficiency."

Linux Developer's Network: "Applications that use the GTK+2 library to provide their user interface have some very powerful user interface migration functionality at their disposal.

With just a few API calls, an application can migrate its entire user interface to a different screen on a multi display host, or even to another X Server entirely."

Softpedia: "This update brings numerous new base packages, like the Linux kernel version 2.6.29.6, X.Org Server 1.6.3 and the K Desktop Environment 4.2.4."

Kernel Log: "Although some X.org drivers have been updated for X server 1.7, development work is running behind schedule.

New drivers from AMD, Intel and Nvidia and new Linux versions mean a number of corrections and enhancements in the graphics system."