From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 23 00:21:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA11396 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 00:21:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA11371 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 00:21:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA12978; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 18:51:48 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA19400; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 18:51:47 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980123185147.33116@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 18:51:47 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: spork Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, suse@suse.de Subject: Re: New XFree86 release soon (was Re: xdm & login.conf limits.) References: <19980123095511.41718@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from spork on Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 03:05:49AM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 03:05:49AM -0500, spork wrote: > Any pointers to what SuSE is? Is this some subset of XFree? Is the Mill > II driver better? More correctly, it's S.u.S.E. (suse@suse.de). I think it stands for "System- und SoftwareEntwicklung" (my capital E to make it obvious). They're probably the biggest Linux distributor in Germany, and they do a significant amount of development. >From what I gather, they have developed some drivers for XFree86. It's certainly not the most important thing they've done. Greg