Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion

On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 14:46, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Eric Anholt wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 14:31, Eric Anderson wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Eric Anholt wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>OK, the final version of the X.Org conversion patch has hit the tree. 
> >>>No ports appear to be broken by the upgrade at this time.  X.Org has
> >>>been made the default X distribution on -current.  Other versions of
> >>>FreeBSD retain the same default X distribution (XFree86) but can upgrade
> >>>by setting X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in /etc/make.conf.
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Sorry if I'm in the stone age here, but I why is this better than 
> >>XFree86?  Just curious.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >It's newer than our old XFree86 4.3 and supports far more hardware. 
> >It's also where current X developers are working, so it's where new
> >features will be first.  It also doesn't have the new XFree86 license. 
> >You could read xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/CHANGELOG and xc/ChangeLog
> >to see what actually changed.  (Hint: a lot.)
> >
> 
> Cool!  So I can expect all the same stuff that works in the -snap 
> version (4.3.99 I think?) of XFree86 to work on X.Org stuff?  In 

Yes, and more.  The snap is quite out of date.

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