Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:17:57 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xorg and xfree86 Message-ID: <20050106191757.GD93129@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <41DD5F25.3060101@att.net> References: <41DD5F25.3060101@att.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:54:13AM -0500, Duane Winner wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if anybody could provide me with a brief explanation of > why FreeBSD has made Xorg the default X11 implementation over XFree86. > > It doesn't really matter to me, I've tried it, it seems to work fine, > and almost exactly the same. > > The only problem I've run into so far is is that my old XF86Config file > with the refresh rates for my external monitor connected to my laptop > didn't quite take (kept going to 800x600). After some minor fiddling, I > managed to get it working (I still need to do it again a few times so I > make sure I understand fully what I'm doing). > > I've read a bunch of docs, but can't seem to find an answer on why > FreeBSD has moved to Xorg. Is it just a political/licensing issue? Like > I said, it's not a big deal, but I manage the internal 'Howto' document > for our organization, and since we're in the process of moving from > 5.2.1 to 5.3, it would be nice to have a little mention of why we're > going to Xorg after my entire section for installing X is going to > change from Xfree86 instructions. We took a look at the activity of both projects, and it looked like xorg is more active and is going to be the de facto future standard implementation. FreeBSD also has a closer integration with the xorg project because we have a committer who works on both projects. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB3Y7lWry0BWjoQKURAmaYAJ9eKlJ9zKmMGQO3XikNMjtIbd3tJACeNdNu PyTVzPvDpeBt7RjreQ31igc= =YhjX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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