From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 19 03:06:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA05782 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 03:06:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from couatl.uchicago.edu (couatl.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA05776 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 03:06:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@couatl.uchicago.edu) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by couatl.uchicago.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id FAA25255; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 05:04:25 -0500 (CDT) To: David Bigagli -Bokis- Cc: freebsd questions Subject: Re: X for freebsd References: From: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 19 Jun 1998 05:04:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: David Bigagli -Bokis-'s message of "Fri, 19 Jun 1998 10:40:04 +0200 (MET DST)" Message-ID: <87af79k8ra.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.9/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Bigagli -Bokis- writes: > it seems to me that there is no free X in the 2.2.6-RELEASE. > Is it true? How can I get it? I've noticed X missing on some mirror sites, but it should definitely be on ftp.freebsd.org or on a CD. It's called XFree86. You don't install it as a package, but as a "distribution". This confused the shit out of me recently when i was putting freebsd on a new machine and I consider myself a pretty experienced freebsd user =). -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message