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On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 10:45, Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> What are the advantages of X.org over XFree? |
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All the development that's happened since XFree86 4.3.0 was released |
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around February 2003. |
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> If I have XFree successfully installed and running, are there any advantages |
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> to switching? |
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See above. |
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> Do 3rd party vendors, notably VMWare which I think supplies an optimized |
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> XFree driver, support X.org? |
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A VMWare employee has commit rights to X.Org CVS. To my knowledge, this |
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was never the case with XFree86. |
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Also, it's branched off of XFree86 pre-4.4, so it has everything that |
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had and more, minus the license problems and lack of committers. |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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