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On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:09:20 +0200
Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 02:01:21AM -0700, Jammet wrote:
> > What is the differnce really between x.org and xfree86 and all the
> > others? I know there are 3 or 4 differnt servers atleast, what are
> > the advantages and disavantages to each and so on?
> 
> X.org forked from XFree86 (recently), because XFree86 changed their
> license in 4.4.  The differences (now) are very small, but of course
> they may diverge more in the future.  FreeBSD, as well as most Linux
> distributions, have adopted X.org instead of XFree86 4.4.  
> 
> I upgraded from XFree86 4.3 to X.org 6.7.0, and I haven't noticed
> any difference (yet), except that XF86Config is now xorg.conf :-). 
> They did include some new video-drivers though.  

So when did we adopt Xorg? From what I've been hearing on the X11
like, the plans appear to be to have them coexist.