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01-15-2005, 07:48 PM
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Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: Ubuntu Feisty
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Xfree, XF86, Xorg?
Whats the difference between them? XF86 = XFree, Xorg = Xorg?
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01-15-2005, 07:51 PM
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Registered: Jan 2005
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XFree86 is actualy better and I always wanted to install it over cygwin but the damn thing never worked because they where removed packages... (pissed me off)
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01-15-2005, 08:07 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Glasgow
Distribution: Fedora / Solaris
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XF86 does = Xfree(86). Xorg is a fork of the last Xfree86 release which had a license which was compatible with the GPL (the current XFree license has a clause which caused a lot of bother). Also, Xorg is being more actively developed, so more interesting things are happening with it. XFree86 has been abandoned by just about every Linux distro, so it's becoming less and less relevant.
Dave
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01-15-2005, 08:52 PM
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Registered: May 2004
Location: Australia
Distribution: Gentoo
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XFree86 is actualy better
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Got something to back that up...? |
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01-15-2005, 09:31 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
Posts: 16,298
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I fail to see how Xfree86 could be better than Xorg. XFree86 wasn't just dropped coz of the licensing issue, but also because the development process was slow and not open.
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01-15-2005, 10:16 PM
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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Des Moines
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 111
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Xorg! w00t! More development, and a better liscense (probably why there is more development and threfore a better X server. =P)
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