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Date:      Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:36:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        John Sconiers <John_Sconieres@ama-assn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Metro-X -vs Accelerated-X
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810131234190.1646-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <s6232b5b.099@gwise.ama-assn.org>

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On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, John Sconiers wrote:

>I am thinking of investing in a commercial x-windows display server.  
>Has anyone tried out Metro-x and accelerated-x and how do they stack up
>against each other.  Is it even worth buying a commercial x-server or
>should I stay with Xfree86.

The only reason I can think of to use commercial X is to get support for a
new video card or to get multiheaded servers. There are accelerated
servers in XFree86.

OBTW, Multiheading will be coming to XFree86 with version 4.0.

Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/


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