From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 23:05:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D79A16A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:05:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av15-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (av15-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2ECC43D41 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:05:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: by av15-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id AEBF037E46; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:05:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.181]) by av15-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9825337E42 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:05:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 6486A37E42 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:05:56 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 1548 invoked by uid 1001); 22 Nov 2004 23:05:56 -0000 Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:05:55 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Doug Van Allen Message-ID: <20041122230555.GA1511@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Van Allen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <2063a95c04112214575ae8f97d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2063a95c04112214575ae8f97d@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should I use Xorg or XFree86 for XServer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:05:58 -0000 On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:57:21PM -0500, Doug Van Allen wrote: > I'm going to install 5.3, but I now understand that sysinstall does > not handle in install of XServer. It is a post-install duty. I don't > know which is the better one to install-Xorg or XFree86?? Reading > some vague posts about this it seemed that people were using Xorg. For the time being there is not much difference between them, so you can use whichever one you want. If you are going to install other programs as packages (as opposed to compiling via ports) I would recommend Xorg, since this is the default for 5.3 and all pre-built packages will depend on Xorg. (And if you use XFree86 you will have to set X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xfree86-4 in /etc/make.conf.) (And if you were to run 4.10 all the above would still apply, except that you would have to change all references to Xorg to XFree86 and vice versa.) In short: For 5.3 Xorg is recommended and for 4.10 XFree86 is recommended. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se