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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:52:23 +0200 (EET)
From:      Imre Oolberg <oolberg@eenet.ee>
To:        <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: XF86 4 on 4.3-RELEASE?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.30.0103091649010.83210-100000@myristaja.eenet.ee>
In-Reply-To: <20010309064254Y.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>

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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



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