From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Dec 31 16:39:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 659D537B420; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:39:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsd.havk.org (user-24-214-88-13.knology.net [24.214.88.13]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g010dTBZ021695; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:39:30 -0600 (CST) Received: by bsd.havk.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BC8C11A786; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:39:28 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:39:28 -0600 From: Steve Price To: Murray Stokely Cc: John Baldwin , Alfred Perlstein , arch@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xfree4 by default? Message-ID: <20011231183928.F37696@bsd.havk.org> References: <20011231174113.O16101@elvis.mu.org> <20011231162222.V2286@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011231162222.V2286@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:22:22PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:22:22PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > > I agree that we should make the switch in -STABLE immediately after > FreeBSD 4.5 is released. Every other x86 Unix I've been exposed to > has been using X4 for over a year. The arguments about older > supported hardware do not hold water any more since X4 supports so > many newer chipsets out of the box that X336 can't handle. All of the recent package builds have been with XFREE86_VERSION=4. I'm not sure how long for sure but for as long as I can remember which isn't saying much. Making it the default shouldn't be all that difficult in bsd.port.mk. Don't know how hard it would be for sysinstall and friends. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message