From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 17:31:20 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 EB40116A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 17:31:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from northwindcom.dyndns.org (135-203-237-24.gci.net [24.237.203.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 933A843D41 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 17:31:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@northwindcom.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost.dyndns.org (localhost.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by northwindcom.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A9326C5; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:29:02 -0800 (AKDT) From: Beecher Rintoul Organization: NorthWind Communications To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:29:02 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040702161152.40151.qmail@web13422.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040702161152.40151.qmail@web13422.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407020929.02030.akbeech@northwindcom.dyndns.org> cc: pfgshield-pedro@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Using xorg instead of XFree86 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: akbeech@northwindcom.dyndns.org 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 17:31:21 -0000 On Friday 02 July 2004 08:11 am, pfgshield-pedro@yahoo.com wrote: > --- 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. FYI, A couple of weeks ago I built 4.4 from XFree86's source tree and it both compiled and runs fine. I will need to straighten out my ports tree at some point, but for now things are ok. SiS support was shaky on this box, and is much improved with 4.4. I have heard that X.org has better driver support, that would be my reason to switch over. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@northwindcom.dyndns.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------