Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 11:48:10 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Brian Bennett <Bahamat@email.msn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which X is Which? Message-ID: <33E445CA.2EEF@barcode.co.il> References: <0e25d2358160287UPIMSSMTPUSR02@email.msn.com>
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Brian Bennett wrote: > > I want to download and install X Windows for my FreeBSD partition, but > there are 2 versions at the FTP site. 3.3 and 3.2 Which one should I get? > Is one less stable? I heard somewhere that versions that ended in an odd > number were not 'official' releases. Is that true? No. For full info on the various X releases, see http://www.xfree86.org. I use both 3.2 and 3.3 with FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE machines, and both work fine for me. 3.3 has support for more graphics card, and some of *this* support may not be production-quality yet. Again, see the XFree docs for details. > > How do I get access to devices that weren't setup during installation? I > have a home LAN, and I want to try and connect to the other computer. I > also wand to connect to the Internet, but I can't figure out how to use my > modem. See the handbook and tutorials on http://www.freebsd.org. They cover this problem pretty well. > > I have created 2 users on my system. When I login as one of them, if I > make a mistake at the command line and I press the backspace I get a ^H > character. If I log in as root this doesn't happen. Why is that? What > can I do to change that for my regular users? > > Bahamat Nadav
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