Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:52:38 -0500 From: Jack Barnett <jackbarnett@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Offtopic: x.org verus xFree86? Message-ID: <466926E6.3080703@gmail.com>
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This is slightly off topic... but anyone know the differences between x.org and xFree86? I was using FreeBSD 4.xxx for the longest time (and some varieties of Linux, OpenBSD, etc) and all where xFree86. I was out of the "scene" for a bit (but still running 4.xxx) and recently upgraded to 6.2 and it has x.org... x.org all over the place. no more traces of xfree86 anywhere! now it's at 7.2 :) Anyone know why x.org split from xFree86? From what I can tell it looks the same (same files, same options etc)... was it just a licensing change or something like that? Just wondering the history behind the different naming and what all changed? Why was it "forked"? Thanks
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