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Date:      Sun, 4 Jan 2015 12:40:46 -0500
From:      Xavier Freebsd Questio <xavierfreebsdquestio@aim.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: emulate a Xorg configuration of GNU/Linux (Fedora 21) on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <8D1F65CB4E03AE5-15D0-B0B5@webmail-vm170.sysops.aol.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150104180240.6c6cf30b.freebsd@edvax.de>
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