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Thanks for the replies, all.

I was asking 'cos I believe KDE 2.1 depends on it.

Anyone know if KDE 2 or 1 will ship in the 4.3CD?

Cheers all

Irvine

Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> 
> From: Irvine Short <irvine@sanbi.ac.za>
> Subject: XF86 4 on 4.3-RELEASE?
> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 12:12:55 +0200
> 
> > XF86 4 on 4.3-RELEASE?
> >
> > Anyone know if this will be the case?
> 
> Nope.  When XFree86 4.x:
> 
>        a) Supports a reasonable superset of all cards supported by 3.3.6
> 
>        b) Doesn't halve OpenGL performance on cards like Matrox and nVidia
>           (3dfx sucks so much on both that it's not an issue).
> 
>        c) Doesn't have a configuration tool which confuses new users
>           even more than the old configuration tool did.
> 
> Then I think it'll be a good time to switch.  I expect that'll probably
> be XFree86 4.1.
> 
> - Jordan
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