Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:40:12 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xorg and xfree86 Message-ID: <20050106154012.1665fc92@fennec.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <41DD5F25.3060101@att.net> References: <41DD5F25.3060101@att.net>
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On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:54:13 -0500 Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> 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. Xorg beat XFree86 out in regards of features in the newest release.
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