Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 16:55:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: sterrett@cts.com, rbezuide@mikom.csir.co.za (R Bezuidenhout) Subject: Re: Trident GUI 9440 Message-ID: <199607171455.QAA04371@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199607171158.NAA21900@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from R Bezuidenhout at "Jul 17, 96 01:58:54 pm"
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As R Bezuidenhout wrote:
> I had a look on Xfee86 home page and according to them the 3.1.2B (Beta)
> have support for just aabout all the Trident chipsets 9440 and 9680 aswell
Yep, i know.
Anyway, beta servers have a limited lifetime:
^G
This is a beta version of XFree86.
This binary may be redistributed providing it is not modified in any way.
Please send success and problem reports to <report@XFree86.org>.
This version ( 3.1.2E ) will expire at Sun Sep 1 02:00:00 1996
Waiting for 10 seconds...
XFree86 Version 3.1.2E / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6100)
Release Date: May 13 1996
So it's basically useless to ship them along with a FreeBSD release
which has a projected lifetime of probably a year or so. (Remember,
it's the culmination of the -stable branch, and people running this
conservative incarnation of the system usually belong into the group
of ``Never change a running system.'')
Maybe a 2.2-SNAP CD would be a better place to ship XFree86 betas, but
it's possible as well that there will be an XFree86 3.2.0 before the
next SNAP happens.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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