[OpenIndiana-discuss] The migration to Xorg Server 1.12.2 (X11R7.7)

[ken mays]

Hello,

A few 'desktop distro engineers/maintainers' are now migrating their Illumos-based or OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana-based distros to the newer releases of Xorg's Xserver 1.12 provided by the X consolidation from Oracle.

The main stable X11 7.7 release is:
Xserver 1.12.2 (32-bit & 64-bit binaries)

As for desktop environments:
The new JDS/GNOME 2.30.x binary refresh is maintained by Milan Jurik at:
http://pkg.opensolaris.cz (updated: 2012-12-30 )

Xfce 4.10 is maintained and provided through the SFE project:
https://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/spec-files-extra/


KDE 4.8.4 was maintained and provided through the KDE4 for OpenSolaris project:
http://solaris.bionicmutton.org/

A few things you should know:

1. Nvidia 304.64 - use this driver if you still want to maintain hardware using legacy Nvidia 6000/7000-based GPU products.

2. Illumos-gate (recent >=: 3e3d92153ccf): Check with your distro provider on getting this recent update.

~ Ken Mays

Sidenote: For those interested in the Illumos reference distro discussion:
http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-case-for-new-reference-distro-for.html