Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:42:56 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Roop Nanuwa <roop.nanuwa@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X servers Message-ID: <20040711174256.2046a84b@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <75f3f705040711124344dd53bd@mail.gmail.com> References: <1089277280.236.12.camel@Desolation> <20040708232618.531e6fd7@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> <200407091324.16445.kirk@strauser.com> <20040711175514.GA21000@lori.mine.nu> <75f3f705040711124344dd53bd@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 12:43:14 -0700 Roop Nanuwa <roop.nanuwa@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 19:55:14 +0200, Geert Hendrickx > <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> wrote: > > I don't see why. XFree86 has been offering us the best free > > X-server for years. It always worked fine for me. > > > > And why would BSD care about a GPL-incompatible licese? > > > > It has been providing the best X-Server for years but that does > not necessarily mean it's that good. The development team, I > hear, is not very welcoming of updates, fixes and suggestions. > That's the main reason the x.org team split, it's so they could > increase the integration of new features into the source tree > at a greater pace. The X server as it stands now isn't even > more feature packed than what Win98's GDI could do. LOL, really fewer features than Windows 98 GDI? Did Windows 98 recently become network extensible and no one has told me? After a quick look at what Windows 98's GDI does, I really do not see how XFree86 fails to measure up to it. > I don't think anyone really cares about the licensing issue, as > far as I can tell. People have an opinion on it but it hasn't driven > anyone Heh, not from what I've read in many linux rags... atleast to them it is nearly all about licensing issues as far I can tell... plus they like to blame X(specifically XFree86) for slowness despite crappy kernels prior to 2.6 and what generally appears to be just all around bad X configs and appear to be welcoming Xorg in hope that it will change with out any thing proving it otherwise...
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