XOrg vs XFree86

[Moritz Heiber]

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.

Yeah, lets move on.
Again Nick, you're doing a terrific job on this part. If you need any 
help just ask for it (i.e. testing stuff ..). Keep it up!

Regards,

Moritz