This is an administrative notice to the members of the list, that this mailing list is now deprecated and will probably be disabled at some point in the future.
The list was initially intended to provide a forum for users of Red Hat Linux to discuss XFree86 related problems without having to join one of the high volume OS specific lists, or the generic redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxxx It was also intended to enable myself to keep track of XFree86 specific issues easier by monitoring a single lower volume list, than to have to keep track of the large number of high volume per-OS-release mailing lists we used to maintain at Red Hat in the past.
In Fedora Core 2, we switched to X.Org X11 from XFree86, and we have now released 2 Fedora Core releases with xorg-x11 as the supported X11 implementation. Additionally, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ships xorg-x11 instead of XFree86.
Since our switch to X.Org X11 away from XFree86, the already low volume on this mailing list has dropped quite a bit, which I believe is indicative that while not all people upgrade to each new OS release, the majority of people using our community OS releases have upgraded to FC2 or later already, and seem to participate in the various Fedora mailing lists we provide, as well as the upstream xorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list.
For a while, I've debated wether or not it would be useful to create a new mailing list named "x-list@xxxxxxxxxx" or something similarly X11 implementation generic with which to replace this list, however the volume on this list has dropped significantly, and personally, I believe that the list has more or less outlived its usefulness now, and there are superior public forums out there nowadays for discussing XFree86 and Xorg X11 related issues. Everyone might as well just switch to the existing public forums.
While this list will remain open for the time being, my plan is to eventually decommission it sometime later this year, so I wanted to give the subscribership a heads up, and provide everyone with a list of alternative mailing lists which are much more suitable, and more likely to yield better answers to questions and technical problems:
xorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - Primary X.Org user/devel mailing list xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx - Primary XFree86 user mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxx - Primary Fedora Core end user mailing list
There are a number of other X.Org related mailing lists which are hosted at lists.x.org which may be useful as well. XFree86.org also hosts a number of other mailing lists related to its project, and Red Hat provides a number of other Fedora Core related end user, tester, and developer mailing lists which can be used to discuss problems specific to using Fedora Core.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers using RHEL 2.1 or RHEL 3, can contact Red Hat directly for technical support by logging into the Red Hat support website at: http://www.redhat.com/support or by contacting support via telephone at 1-888-RED-HAT1. The above public support mailing lists may also be useful to Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers.
I assume nobody here will really have any strong feelings one way or another, as the list has been mostly dead for quite a while now, however feel free to respond back to the list if you have any thoughts about the above plan.
Thanks for reading this far. ;o)
TTYL
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