From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 18:24:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350AA16A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:24:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA9043D45 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:24:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B560DBA6C for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:24:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 82547-05 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:24:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from janus.daycos.com (outbound.daycos.com [204.26.70.70]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D2D4BA60 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:24:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Kirk Strauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:24:16 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <1089277280.236.12.camel@Desolation> <20040708232618.531e6fd7@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> <20040709064558.GA14282@lori.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20040709064558.GA14282@lori.mine.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407091324.16445.kirk@strauser.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at honeypot.net Subject: Re: X servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:24:22 -0000 On Friday 2004-07-09 01:45 am, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > Anyway, I would very much like to see FreeBSD supporting both of them > (AFAIK, they would be the only one who do). Out of curiosity, why would you like to see them continue to support XFree86? It seems that most (all?) new development is moving toward X.org and the XFree86 seems slated for stagnation and obsolescence. Political issues aside, I think that X.org is where all of the action is. -- Kirk Strauser