From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 4 20:58:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-172.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958AC37B405 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:58:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (topperwein.dyndns.org [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f953w5X78295 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 23:58:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 23:58:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Why does installing X require the compat3x and compat4x dists In-Reply-To: <20010918173514.B51703@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: <20011004235614.C77368-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, j mckitrick wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:14:49PM -0400, Jeff Lee wrote: > | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > | Hash: SHA1 > | > | I've never understood that either, but I assumed that someone had a > | good reason for it. Why is XFree86 3.3.6 installed by default > | instead of 4.X? > > I *believe* for two reasons: > > When 4.x came out, it was considered less secure. > 4.x didn't support as many chipsets as 3.x, so for maximum useability, they > just go with 3.x. 3.x support is not a proper superset of 4.x support. You won't get support for, e.g., ATI Rage 128 or Radeon boards in 3.x, but you won't get support for older boards in 4.x. C'est la vie. You must also go to 4.x to get DRI. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message