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Date:      Fri, 24 Dec 1999 15:01:42 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/objformat Makefile
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912241454520.96221-100000@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912241705410.291-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>

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On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> > It's cool.  I was just catching up with -hackers, reading the threads
> > on GLIDE (and wishing XFree86 3.9.X/4.X was out so I could use my TNT...)
> > and noticing that gasp was only in libexec, with no link.  Perhaps
> > I'll trade my TNT for a friend's V3, and try out GLIDE :) 
> 
> You don't need XFree 3.9 to run OpenGL on your TNT. Just install 3.3.5 and
> find an appropriate glx.so to go with it. There were some port skeletons
> floating around which you can use to build one.

I recall porting NVidia's "GLX 0.99" to FreeBSD in an afternoon, and
I liked it a lot.  The problem is that this is slow because of the
general ad-hocity of the whole "solution".  I'm also not willing to
go back to XFree86 3.[ -lt 9].X, since 3.9.1[56], so far, have been
faster and smaller than any version I've used before.  The new X,
even if only "alpha", is IMHO almost production ready.
   It's kinda funny when I think about it... FreeBSD 4.0 faster and
more stable (definitely not smaller ;) than 2 or 3, and has been that
way for a while, but is not released as more than something claimed
to be "alpha" quality;  the XFree86 situation certainly seems to be
exactly the same.  There's the lack of certain drivers, but that's
not an issue for (I would say) most people.
   It may be just me, but I would venture to say we could both
(as collective projects) work out better release schedules by
using just one LOD, adding features to one release when appropriate,
stabilizing them, then making another release...  but I'm
probably missing something large which would change my view of that ;)

> --
> Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
> Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037

-- 
 Brian Fundakowski Feldman           \  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!  /
 green@FreeBSD.org                    `------------------------------'



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