Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:24:40 -0500

Since a signficant number of EPICS extensions (ALH, DM2K, EDM, MEDM,
Probe, StripTool) make use of Motif, I think it's worthwhile repeating
this news item from Linux Weekly News here:
Fedora Core to drop openmotif [Distributions] Posted Aug 31, 2006
16:13 UTC (Thu) by corbet
It's official: Fedora Core 6 will not include the openmotif library,
which has a non-free license. The library will be removed prior to
the October 2 development freeze. As a result, a number of packages
using openmotif (including cmucl, ddd, nedit, and xpdf) will break;
they, too, will be removed if they cannot be shifted over to lesstif
in the next month.

Full Story at http://lwn.net/Articles/197744/

This won't prevent OpenMotif from being installed on FC6 machines, but
it will involve extra work. FC6 will include LesTif, but that's not
100% compatible with the original, and I know we had problems with it
before OpenMotif came out.
- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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