From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 7 20:58:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A5A516A4CE for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 20:58:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2AE43D1D for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 20:58:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) iA7KwQ07092109 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 7 Nov 2004 20:58:26 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)iA7KwQ92092108; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 20:58:26 GMT (envelope-from matthew) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 20:58:26 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: Lloyd Hayes Message-ID: <20041107205826.GB91521@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Lloyd Hayes , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <418A53E5.40404@yahoo.com> <44mzxu6g00.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <418DC569.2060106@yahoo.com> <44pt2p63zw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <418E7793.5020908@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <418E7793.5020908@yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.6 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:58:26 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/575/Sat Nov 6 01:03:53 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,RAZOR2_CHECK autolearn=ham version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Naming confusion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:58:31 -0000 --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:29:23PM -0700, Lloyd Hayes wrote: > Xorg is a problem which seems to come under the heading of New=20 > Technology. I'll stick with XFree86. > Xorg is now off of this computer. X.org and XFree86 are almost identical right now. Apart from a few small details (eg. the precise colour of blue text.) and the levels of support for some of the very latest graphics hardware, you probably aren't going to see much difference at all between the ways they behave. It's not going to stay that way though: X.org are planning on introducing a lot of new stuff much faster that XFree86 ever did -- but that's mostly because XFree86 development was glacially slow. X.org has also been chosen as the favoured X implementation by all of the Linux distros, FreeBSD (where it's standard in 5.x), NetBSD and OpenBSD as well as big names like Sun, IBM and HP. It's definitely the way of the future. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBjoxyiD657aJF7eIRAkK6AJ96Mr0C8OKIEEGj2X70zJ+YZmbjzQCfZgjM YmKgQ3tcAwAEjc0TVpko0iY= =6J/I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aM3YZ0Iwxop3KEKx--