Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:15:21 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Jeff Roberts <jroberts@ashland.edu> Cc: FreeBSD questions list <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: gcd(X,XF86,FreeBSD) = ? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970326171449.3399A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OS2.3.95.970326171852.25F-100000@warp4.ashland.edu>
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On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Jeff Roberts wrote: > Greetings and salutations! > > Does anyone know just how much X and XFree86 have in common? I bought > FBSD to learn UNIX programming -- esp. X* programming. Are there > appreciable deviations from X in XF86 that I need to consider, and also, > are there appreciable deviations from XF86 proper to the port for FreeBSD? > Is a good X programming book a good XF86-on-FreeBSD programming book? > > I ask, because in addition to some books already mentioned on another > thread, I'm looking at a couple of X books from my book club that just > claim to deal with "X Windows". You're fine. XFree86 is an implementation of Xwindows. > Thanks, > > Jeff Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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