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From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Subject: Re: XFree86/NetBSD 0.9/S3 problems.
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In article <Ugc_Kjy00WBK02qtJw@andrew.cmu.edu> David Eugene Dwiggins <dd2x+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Maybe instead of a release date on XFree86-2.0 one could publish a quick
>description of the current status?  (fixing minor bugs, core dumps,
>etc.) It doesn't have the effect of people thinking it is going to be
>out on a certain date but offers things like "major problems in section
>xxx" would let us know that it will be a while.  If we know what we're
>waiting for, it would make the wait a bit more bearable.  (with the
>usual attitude that things may still change, etc.)

OK.  We are just moving from the furious hacking phase to the
stabilisation phase.  It should be (hopefully) minor bug fixing from
here on.  At the moment, things are going according to schedule.

David
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