From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 9 6:52:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from myristaja.eenet.ee (myristaja.eenet.ee [193.40.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DA137B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 06:52:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oolberg@eenet.ee) Received: from localhost (oolberg@localhost) by myristaja.eenet.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA84176 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:52:23 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:52:23 +0200 (EET) From: Imre Oolberg To: Subject: Re: XF86 4 on 4.3-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: <20010309064254Y.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > > 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. Its comforting to hear that people care about new users when it concerns UNIX configuration tools :) > Then I think it'll be a good time to switch. I expect that'll probably > be XFree86 4.1. > > - Jordan Imre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message