From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 19:17:20 2005 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 F0BB016A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:17:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.199.47.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59ADC43D45 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:17:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EC6CE51354; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:17:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:17:57 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Duane Winner Message-ID: <20050106191757.GD93129@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <41DD5F25.3060101@att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RYJh/3oyKhIjGcML" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41DD5F25.3060101@att.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xorg 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: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 19:17:21 -0000 --RYJh/3oyKhIjGcML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:54:13AM -0500, Duane Winner wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > I was wondering if anybody could provide me with a brief explanation of= =20 > why FreeBSD has made Xorg the default X11 implementation over XFree86. >=20 > It doesn't really matter to me, I've tried it, it seems to work fine,=20 > and almost exactly the same. >=20 > The only problem I've run into so far is is that my old XF86Config file= =20 > with the refresh rates for my external monitor connected to my laptop=20 > didn't quite take (kept going to 800x600). After some minor fiddling, I= =20 > managed to get it working (I still need to do it again a few times so I= =20 > make sure I understand fully what I'm doing). >=20 > I've read a bunch of docs, but can't seem to find an answer on why=20 > FreeBSD has moved to Xorg. Is it just a political/licensing issue? Like= =20 > I said, it's not a big deal, but I manage the internal 'Howto' document= =20 > for our organization, and since we're in the process of moving from=20 > 5.2.1 to 5.3, it would be nice to have a little mention of why we're=20 > going to Xorg after my entire section for installing X is going to=20 > change from Xfree86 instructions. We took a look at the activity of both projects, and it looked like xorg is more active and is going to be the de facto future standard implementation. FreeBSD also has a closer integration with the xorg project because we have a committer who works on both projects. Kris --RYJh/3oyKhIjGcML Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB3Y7lWry0BWjoQKURAmaYAJ9eKlJ9zKmMGQO3XikNMjtIbd3tJACeNdNu PyTVzPvDpeBt7RjreQ31igc= =YhjX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RYJh/3oyKhIjGcML--