From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 11 22:27:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA25703 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 22:27:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA25698 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 22:27:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA24498; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 22:26:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 22:26:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: XFree86 vesion 3.2 on FreeBSD 2.1.0 In-Reply-To: <9610118477.AA847768689@ccgate0.bms.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: > I have noticed that Xfree86 has released their new 3.2 version, but > they only show binaries available for FreeBSD 2.1.5 and above. The > system I would like to install them onto is running FreeBSD 2.1.0. > Is an upgrade necessary to take advantage of XFree86-3.2? Well, if you're on 2.1.0 you're very soon going to be 2 versions behind so I would wait for 2.1.6 to come out then do one big upgrade. In essence, yes, you're going to have to upgrade. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major