From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 22 23:37:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA25151 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 23:37:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA25144 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 23:36:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au [129.78.129.109]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id XAA01406 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 23:36:20 -0700 Received: (from dawes@localhost) by rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA13284; Thu, 23 May 1996 16:33:09 +1000 From: David Dawes Message-Id: <199605230633.QAA13284@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Subject: Re: X11R6.1 available... Should we use? To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 16:33:09 +1000 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jake Hamby" at May 22, 96 05:44:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >takes to make a port. Does anyone on the XFree86 team know what the >status of XFree86 under X11R6.1 is? XFree86 3.1.2C does seem to be >integrated into X11R6.1 itself and there is also an odd directory named XFree86 3.1.2C is a snapshot of our R6.1-based code taken just prior to the R6.1 release. 3.1.2C is beta quality at best. Our recent beta releases (3.1.2D and 3.1.2E) are based on R6.1. We plan to have our next full release (3.2) ready later this year. >xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree98 which seems to be a subset of xfree86, >with no accompanying documentation! This is for the Japanese PC98 machines (which can run variants of FreeBSD, NetBSD and SVR4). I don't personally know much about these machines, other than that they are Intel-based, but have quite a different bus architecture to AT-style machines. David