Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 22:57:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: elaska <"elaska@mail.ctainforms"@vv.cta.com> Cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11/X Windows Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961220225559.244Y-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199612210650.WAA21977@victor1.mscomm.com>
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On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, elaska wrote: > I'm kind of new to the Unix enviornment, but I like what I've learned in > the past year and a half. Is X11 and X Windows the same thing? Yes. The official name is the X Window System, Version 11, Release 6.1. > Are there free versions? Yes; FreeBSD ships with one, XFree86. > I use X Windows at school on the SGI Indigo's under Irix, I believe 4.3 > or 5.3. I may be wrong on the version of the OS. Anyway I like the > enviornment as much as the command prompt, but I'm seeing more > applications available for FreeBSD in the X Windows enviornment, so I'm > looking to find a version of X Windows. A free version is preferable, > considering the price of tuition at college. If you have any > suggestions, etc. please mail them to either plaska@ctainforms.com or > plaska@csci.csusb.edu. Thank you very much. Just run sysconfig, mount your partitions, and install the XFree86 distribution. Make sure you install the X server that correpsonds to your display card as well as the libs and config files. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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