From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 5 4:19:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-4.sjc.telocity.net (mail-4.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477B137B4D7 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 04:19:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-4.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA10444; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 04:15:38 -0800 (PST) From: "Otter" To: "Devon Young" , Subject: RE: Xfree86 4.0.1 support soon? Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 07:23:14 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: <20001105120731.27114.qmail@web4702.mail.yahoo.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG you could wait for it to be included, but i think you may be waiting for awhile. 3.3.6 is quite stable. 4.0 has had some security issues since it's release. i've got it behind another machine on a private network, so i run it without worries. i would assume you could as well being on a laptop. you should consider installing it from ports if you need it that bad. why wait for a cd? =] -Otter (happy user of XFreee86 4.0.1_3) }-----Original Message----- }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Devon Young }Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 7:08 AM }To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }Subject: Xfree86 4.0.1 support soon? } } }Hi, } I have a laptop with FreeBSD working on it now :) ...but, }I can't use X windows unless it's version 4.0+ because }previous versions don't support my hardware. So I was }wondering if there was any information about when X 4.0+ }will be included in the FreeBSD iso image. I'm hoping soon, }because I'd rather not go back to using Linux until then. }I'm tired of having to use the command line interface ONLY. }So, will it be included soon? Please and thanx. } } A recent convert to the BSD universe, } Devon } }__________________________________________________ }Do You Yahoo!? }Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. }http://shopping.yahoo.com/ } } }To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org }with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message