Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:00:38 -0500 From: John Sconiers <John_Sconieres@ama-assn.org> To: John_Sconieres@ama-assn.org, jcwells@u.washington.edu Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Metro-X -vs Accelerated-X Message-ID: <s6236ca5.043@gwise.ama-assn.org>
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Johnathan Raymond Sconiers II >>> "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> 10/13 2:36 PM >>> On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, John Sconiers wrote: >I am thinking of investing in a commercial x-windows display server. >Has anyone tried out Metro-x and accelerated-x and how do they stack up >against each other. Is it even worth buying a commercial x-server or >should I stay with Xfree86. The only reason I can think of to use commercial X is to get support for a new video card or to get multiheaded servers. There are accelerated servers in XFree86. OBTW, Multiheading will be coming to XFree86 with version 4.0. ------------------------------------------------------------------ I was told the commercial X servers would be faster with better display. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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