From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 7 10:52: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A777C37B76F for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 10:52:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA4176; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 10:53:26 -0700 Message-ID: <393E8B3D.712DF0D3@acuson.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 10:49:49 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Lynch Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: x-windows References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris Lynch wrote: > the STB Velocity 128 is supported under 4.0. This is also true for a lot of the newer cards. A while ago the Xfree86 team made the decision to spend their energy on 4.0 instead of 3.3. For a good period of time, the only things that got in 3.3 were bugfixes. 4.0 has new drivers, and for a lot of older hards, hardware acceleration and other goodies. Now that the big push to get 4.0 out the door is over, I expect they'll go back and add in support for cards they didn't have time for. I consider the XFree86 team to be the unsung heroes of Open Source. Everyone knows the names Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman. Most folks know the names Bill Jolitz and Kirk McKusick. But no one knows the names of the XFree86 developers. They are the purest of the Open Source crowd: not for money, ideology, academia or fun - they do because it's there. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message