xfstt killing Xserver

Lonni J Friedman netllama
Fri Sep 28 10:31:45 PDT 2007


On 9/28/07, Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:16:08PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > Wow, talk about a blast from the past.  What ancient distro are you
> > running that still has both XFree86 & xfstt (both of which are riddled
> > with security holes now)?
> >
> uname -a gives:
>
> Linux hammer11 2.4.24 #1 Mon May 17 04:48:14 PDT 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
>
> This is based on linspire, although I stopped using the
> CNR service a long time back.
>
> The only thing I miss is decent video, since when I
> upgraded to the new version of firefox, the old flash
> player wasn't compatible and the new flash player
> consistently crashes my X server.
>
> I may upgrade when I have time, after I retire in about
> 4 more years.

errr, wow.

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