From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 14:02:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA04787 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:02:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from extractor.compass-da.com (gateway.compass-da.com [162.17.253.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA04778 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:02:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by extractor.compass-da.com; id AA15133; Thu, 29 Aug 96 14:01:59 PDT Received: from luminary.sanjose.compass-da.com(162.17.1.44) by gateway.compass-da.com via smap (V3.1.1) id xma015125; Thu, 29 Aug 96 14:01:53 -0700 Received: from mirage.compass-da.com (mirage [162.17.2.39]) by luminary.sanjose.compass-da.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id OAA20125 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by mirage.compass-da.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA15207; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:04:26 -0700 Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:04:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Garth Corral X-Sender: garthc@mirage To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Which Motif for FreeBSD? Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello all, I am a long-time NetBSD user (since 0.8) who has finally decided to come in from the cold and switch to FreeBSD. I still believe that NetBSD is a great OS and will continue to use it on my non-x86 boxes. The fact remains though, that the NetBSD community seems to be shrinking and support from commercial vendors is drying up. FreeBSD on the other hand has an excellent support and release organization that has translated into a much larger user base and commercial support. Which brings me to the point of this message (sorry for the long winded justification above but making the switch after such a long time feels a bit like cheating :-) ). The primary reason for the switch is that I'm in need of a Motif runtime + development package and there are exactly zero available for NetBSD. The flip side to this is that there seem to be several available for FreeBSD. I used SWiM 1.2.4 when it was available for NetBSD and was a completely satisfied customer. My inclination would be to get the SWiM 2.0 distribution for FreeBSD but I noticed that Xinside also has a similar product. Does anyone have experience with one or the other (or both) of these products? How do they compare? Is one clearly better than the other? Are there any restrictions on the use of the Xinside package? i.e, do I need accelerated-X? I'm not sure but it appears that there may also be a product from Metrolink (?). Is this true? If so, how does it compare to the other two? Any and all comments, opinions, etc. will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Garth. P.S. Another reason for the switch is that for as long as I can remember (386bsd days) Jordan has always been a voice of reason in the BSD community and has done a great deal to provide FreeBSD with a very professional and positive image. Keep up the great work.