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Date:      Fri, 3 Feb 2006 04:59:57 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?
Message-ID:  <20060203095956.GA65763@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <43E2F43B.1000303@u.washington.edu>
References:  <43E2E2F1.70206@u.washington.edu> <20060203050813.GA45810@xor.obsecurity.org> <43E2F43B.1000303@u.washington.edu>

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On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:12:11PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:58:25PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > =20
> >>   Just tried out Xorg 7.0 on my Gentoo box and it appears to render a=
=20
> >>lot better than the 6.8 tree did. So, I was wondering if there was any=
=20
> >>approximate timeframe mentioned anywhere where Xorg 7.0 may be coming t=
o=20
> >>FreeBSD =3D)?
> >>   =20
> >
> >AFAIK xorg 7.0 is functionally identical to 6.9, which is already in
> >ports.
> >
> >Kris
> > =20
> Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there=20
> should be a noticeable difference.

"Modular" means that the source code is packaged up in small chunks
instead of big; as the x.org website says, they contain *exactly the
same code*.

Kris

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