Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 19:55:14 +0200 From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X servers Message-ID: <20040711175514.GA21000@lori.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <200407091324.16445.kirk@strauser.com> References: <1089277280.236.12.camel@Desolation> <20040708232618.531e6fd7@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> <20040709064558.GA14282@lori.mine.nu> <200407091324.16445.kirk@strauser.com>
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On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:24:16PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > 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? Why not? At the moment, differences between the two are small, but in the future they probably will both have interesting new features. The Ports also offer multiple shells, multiple window managers, ... so why not multiple X-servers? > 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. I don't see why. XFree86 has been offering us the best free X-server for years. It always worked fine for me. And why would BSD care about a GPL-incompatible licese? GH
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