From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 16:13:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE45416A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 16:13:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web13422.mail.yahoo.com (web13422.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BD0243D39 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 16:13:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pfgshield-pedro@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040702161152.40151.qmail@web13422.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.171.232.246] by web13422.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 02 Jul 2004 18:11:52 CEST Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 18:11:52 +0200 (CEST) From: To: Matthew Gardiner , Vulpes Velox In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using xorg instead of XFree86 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 16:13:53 -0000 --- Matthew Gardiner ha scritto: > > Its basically a full gone conclusion, look at the organisations supporting > XFree86 vs. Xorg, look at the development tree's etc. etc. Xorg is moving > forward whilst XFree86 has basically remained static. > > I think the bigger one will be the OpenGL accelerated Xserver being > developed by Keith Packard. > I think this thread is going nowhere very fast... but anyways X is arguably the most important application in any free OS distribution. IMHO Linux distributors haven't been fully sponsoring XFree86 as a project as they should, and now they complain because of a minimal change in the license of code they didn't write. X.org and XFree86 have existed in parallel for a LONG time, and the sponsorship behind either project is still too small, compared to the importance of the project and the type of money other organizations move. It's just my opinion, from the outside, but just as other non-coders are so eagerly pointing out that XFree86 seems lonely, I just take note that 1) it's never been really crowded and 2) the grass is not very greener on the other side. That said, I don't really care about the X.org vs XFree86 debate. I'd just like to see the XFree86 update committed and, if possible, both systems being well supported on my favorite OS. If it's not easy to run either project, maybe it's time to revaluate my OS preferrence and I'd really prefer not doing that ATM. Pedro. ____________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Companion - Scarica gratis la toolbar di Ricerca di Yahoo! http://companion.yahoo.it