Hi All,

Friend of mine is convinced that its time to switch from xfree86 to x.org. Also, I'm finding online people saying the same thing:

"Note: Usage of XFree86 is deprecated on the AMD64, HPPA, IA64, MIPS, PPC and SPARC architectures: XFree86 users on those architectures should switch to X.org rather than upgrading XFree86." I'm not using these architectures but is the time coming for i386 as well? reference:

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/gl...-200409-34.xml

I wanted some feedback from the forum before I decide to do it.
Also, never done a switch like this. Any good tutorials or HOWTOs?


Thanks,

ab

I recommend using the X software that comes with your Linux distribution. I started to use X.org when I installed SuSE 10.1. Prior to that all of the Linux distributions that I used had XFree86. I haven't found any particular advantage or disadvantage using X.org. The X software that I use doesn't seem to notice any difference. So I wouldn't bother to switch. I will keep using whatever X base system comes with a distro.

XFree86 went away a while ago with the distros I'm familiar with. Perhaps its time to upgrade distro versions.