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Date:      Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:34:42 -0800
From:      Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>
To:        "'freebsd'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: X11 and Xfree86
Message-ID:  <3F9EEF02.9090100@bigfoot.com>
In-Reply-To: <000a01c39da0$0cdb1b40$fb65a8c0@ocfl061>
References:  <002a01c39cb4$11062e90$0501a8c0@canada> <000a01c39da0$0cdb1b40$fb65a8c0@ocfl061>

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M.D. DeWar wrote:
> What is the difference between x11r6 and xfree86 ?
> I went to xfree site and ended up at x.org and the d/l are not the same.

   X11R6 is specification

   xfree86 is implementation of the specs

   x.org provideS another implementation, that's what you can download 
from x.org (I don't know whether these two implementations are 
(completely) independent)

	erik




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