Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 18:42:11 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com>, walton@nordicdms.com Cc: Giao Nguyen <giao@learnix.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet Message-ID: <19980411184211.20552@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199804110718.AAA10461@foo.primenet.com>; from Bryan K. Ogawa on Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 12:18:20AM -0700 References: <199804110718.AAA10461@foo.primenet.com>
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On Sat, 11 April 1998 at 0:18:20 -0700, Bryan K. Ogawa wrote: > In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: > >> What's Xig? > > Xi's AccelX server. See http://www.xig.com/ > > It costs US$100, but it is (more) easily configured than XFree, it > supports more video hardware, and it is generally faster. I run v3.1 > because the card I have is more stable under Xig and previously wasn't > supported by XFree. The biggest difference with the XiG server is that it supports multiple monitors. I've been using it for years for that reason. Unfortunately, it's been getting more and more expensive in that configuration. Once it came free with BSD/386. Then it cost $10 more for multi-head. Then it cost 2*$40 "special offer", including $40 for software I already had, and which I didn't get refunded. Now I discover that it would cost me $375 to upgrade to the newest version. XiG isn't perfect. I've decided the price is too high for the difference from XFree86, like I decided some time ago that BSD/OS was too expensive for the difference from FreeBSD. A propos configuration: yes, it's a sort of menu-driven thing. The real problem with configuring X isn't running the configuration system, which is acceptable (but not much more) on either product. The real problem is knowing the answers to the questions either installation process asks you. See "The Complete FreeBSD", second edition (http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm) for more details: it's a bitch. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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