Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:35:47 +0200 From: Klaus Robert Suetterlin <robert@mpe.mpg.de> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Q: state of the X (as related to fbsd). Message-ID: <200407020935.i629Zl0B010122@robert2.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
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Dear all, thanks for all the time spent on maintaining X11 under FreeBSD. I have questions on the XFree86 / Xorg matter and how its going to be handled by fbsd developers / maintainers. (To answer the obvious questions: I read the FAQ entry 11.2., I reqad through the freebsd-x11 mail archive.) 1) Why should anyone (I) use the Xorg software bundle? I mean ``really''. I mean ``today''. 2) Is there some kind of (in)official decision to choose one over the other? Or is there a strong personal feeling of the X11 (and related technology) maintainers involved? 3) What keeps the XFree86-4(.4.0) port update from beeing committed? Regards, Robert S. -- If anyone likes to know my feelings in that matter: - Xorg was unable to support its own code base. Even though they are a new organisation now, I do not believe they will cope much better after ``updating'' to Xfree86-4.3.99 and adding their ``many changes maintained elsewhere''. (They seem to rely on freedesktop.org to do the xserver for them.) - Yet ``[...] freedesktop.org is just a "collaboration zone" where ideas and code can be tossed around[...]''. The ``X Server'' is simply a project hosted there. I am unable (inkompetent) to judge its technical quality (or compare it to XFree86). How can anyone today decide wether X Server or XFree86 will develop faster / better? - I (Robert L. User) was unable to find anything except ``project split'', ``new licnese'', ``I'm pissed for some personal reason'' fud on this topic. Especially the freebsd faq entry is vague and I think misleading.
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