XOrg vs XFree86

[Dennis Veatch]

On Wednesday 07 April 2004 09:34 am, Nick Hudson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>     Today Keith Packerd has released the 1st stable version of the fork
> of XFree86, XOrg Xserver.  Now with that in mind should we move away
> from using XFree86 since we have decited not to move to 4.4.0?  IF
> anyone wants to read up on things you can go here
> http://freedesktop.org/XOrg to get that info.  I guess I am just asking
> for everyones opinion on the subject.  Personally I think we need to
> move to XOrg, there is development going on and progress being made,
> XFree86 is not going to change their license and I see all other "major"
> distros switching to use XOrgs xserver.  There shouldnt be alot of work
> to do to switch you system over.  Everything will run and compile the
> same as if it was XFree86.  Anyway there is a module in moonbase right
> now with a beta version of XOrg that it will install.  Hopefully once I
> can update Gnome, then I will start on updating XOrg and then seperate
> that into diffrent modules like, xorg-xserver, xorg-libs, xorg-fonts.
>

I have no problem with making XOrg the default. I think the sooner that move 
is made the better. The one in beta works fine for me.

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