xorg/xfree86

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Nov 16 13:31:24 PST 2004


On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:54:24PM -0500, Joe Altman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:46:01PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> > 
> > For FreeBSD 4.10 XFree86 is still the default. (Xorg is the default on
> > FreeBSD 5.x) 
> 
> Are you sure about this? I was under the impression that XFree86 was
> deprecated, and Xorg preferred; further, that this translates into
> Xorg being the default.
> 
> See UPDATING in /usr/ports:
> 
> 20040723:
>   AFFECTS: users of FreeBSD-current, users of xorg
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Kris

>   AUTHOR: anholt at FreeBSD.org
> 
>   The XFREE86_VERSION variable is deprecated and has been replaced by
>   the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable. X_WINDOW_SYSTEM may be set to xorg,
>   xfree86-4, or xfree86-3.  X_WINDOW_SYSTEM defaults to xorg on
>   FreeBSD-current.
> 
> joe /usr/ports $: uname -a
> FreeBSD anna.chthonixia.net 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE 
> #0: Wed Nov 10 09:25:25 EST 2004
> 
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