From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 14:35:38 2003 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 DB92A16A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:35:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mrout2.yahoo.com (mrout2.yahoo.com [216.145.54.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34D9B43FBD for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:35:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steffl@bigfoot.com) Received: from bigfoot.com (woodpecker.corp.yahoo.com [207.126.234.69]) h9SMYgSI076511 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:34:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3F9EEF02.9090100@bigfoot.com> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:34:42 -0800 From: Erik Steffl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'freebsd'" References: <002a01c39cb4$11062e90$0501a8c0@canada> <000a01c39da0$0cdb1b40$fb65a8c0@ocfl061> In-Reply-To: <000a01c39da0$0cdb1b40$fb65a8c0@ocfl061> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: X11 and Xfree86 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: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:35:39 -0000 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