Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 03:45:58 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> Cc: Jammet <jammet@swbell.net> Subject: Re: X servers Message-ID: <20040709034558.07c553a1@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <20040709064558.GA14282@lori.mine.nu> References: <1089277280.236.12.camel@Desolation> <20040708100920.GA350@lori.mine.nu> <20040708232618.531e6fd7@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> <20040709064558.GA14282@lori.mine.nu>
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On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 08:45:58 +0200 Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:26:18PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > > 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. > > X.org 6.7.0 is in the Ports tree, XFree86 4.4 is not. Dude, check the x11 mailing lists... there has been discussion on getting it in... mainly in regard in getting some thing working... BTW I never said it was as of currently.
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