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From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
To: Eric Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net>
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:28:44PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I've seen a lot of posts over the past couple months regarding
> installation of X.org.  I was wondering, is it that much better than
> XFree86 that it's worth the hassle?  If so, what are those advantages?
>

In "day-to-day" there is no noticeable difference.  I'd deplore one
really annoying bug: http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=474
which prevents me to use MPlayer with XVideo extension when a lot of apps
are running; falling back to -vo x11 is not good on slow hardware.
So for the moment, if XFree86 4.X works for you, you may want to wait
for next Xorg release.

Marc