OpenSUSE sacks SaX2
Novell has announced that its much-loved "SaX2" tool for the configuration of the X Window System will be retired as of the openSUSE 11.2 release. "Novell has decided to no longer invest in development maintenance of SaX2 but instead rely on the new automatic and dynamic configuration features and invest in desktop applets to perform dynamic changes."
Some members of the openSUSE community are rather vocally unhappy with this decision. Novell seems determined to follow this course (similar to what other distributors are doing), but points out: SaX2 is free software and others are welcome to keep it going.
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SaX2 has not always been free
Unlike the author claims, SaX2 was once under the restricted YaST license, and not GPL. I honestly think that people continue to move in the direction of Ubuntu's habits because of their success and not whether it makes sense or not. If the scripts don't get it right, then what? xorg.conf hacking? Isn't this regressing?
@ruel24
What does Ubuntu have to do with anything? Automatic configuration by the X server has nothing to do with Ubuntu, they didn't write it, Ubuntu makes no significant contributions to X.org. Fedora and OpenSUSE developers contributed to it, along with non-distro-affiliated X.org developers.
It makes more sense for distributions and others to collaborate on detection in the X server than to have every distro waste resources writing its own automatic configuration code. I know the Mandriva developers are also eager to drop their X configuration tool as soon as is practical (it does require integrating proprietary driver configuration with X's auto-detection somehow).