Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 23:26:18 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jammet <jammet@swbell.net>, Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> Subject: Re: X servers Message-ID: <20040708232618.531e6fd7@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <20040708100920.GA350@lori.mine.nu> References: <1089277280.236.12.camel@Desolation> <20040708100920.GA350@lori.mine.nu>
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On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:09:20 +0200 Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 02:01:21AM -0700, Jammet wrote: > > What is the differnce really between x.org and xfree86 and all the > > others? I know there are 3 or 4 differnt servers atleast, what are > > the advantages and disavantages to each and so on? > > X.org forked from XFree86 (recently), because XFree86 changed their > license in 4.4. The differences (now) are very small, but of course > they may diverge more in the future. FreeBSD, as well as most Linux > distributions, have adopted X.org instead of XFree86 4.4. > > I upgraded from XFree86 4.3 to X.org 6.7.0, and I haven't noticed > any difference (yet), except that XF86Config is now xorg.conf :-). > They did include some new video-drivers though. So when did we adopt Xorg? From what I've been hearing on the X11 like, the plans appear to be to have them coexist.
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