xorg-X11

[Bill Stoye]

Thank you Tom; just what I was looking for.
Bill

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 15:07 +0100, Thomas Beckett wrote:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/03/msg03460.html
> 
> There you go - explains it quite well i think. Basically the X.or
> forked from XFree86 at version 4.3. This was in the works for a while
> now as the development of XFree86 had pretty  much stalled and was not
> very open. The licence change of Xfree86 was simply a kickstart for
> the big Linux players joined to make the X.org fork and are now
> developing it with a much more open and comunity focus which will lead
> to may different improvements (such as the XDamage, cairo etc).
> The advantages of using x.org is minimal at the moment as gnome or kde
> cannot take advantae of most of teh new extentions, this will change
> over the next erleases though so some very new and exciting changes
> will start to happen. Whereas XFree86 will remain pretty much as it
> is.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 06:54:52 -0700, Bill Stoye <skiffworks at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Does someone have the patience to explain the difference between XFree86
> > and X.org to me, or the advantage of one over the other?
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> > On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 19:27 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:19:17PM -0400, Dan Trevino wrote:
> > >
> > > > I saw a thread about compiling xorg.  Is XFree the X of choice going
> > > > forward?  Or is there an impending switch upcoming?
> > >
> > > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/helpcenterfaq.2004-09-15.9399970902
> > >
> > > --
> > >  - mdz
> > >
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