HEADSUP: X.Org conversion

[Eric Anholt]

On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 14:31, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Eric Anholt wrote:
> 
> >OK, the final version of the X.Org conversion patch has hit the tree. 
> >No ports appear to be broken by the upgrade at this time.  X.Org has
> >been made the default X distribution on -current.  Other versions of
> >FreeBSD retain the same default X distribution (XFree86) but can upgrade
> >by setting X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in /etc/make.conf.
> >
> 
> Sorry if I'm in the stone age here, but I why is this better than 
> XFree86?  Just curious.

It's newer than our old XFree86 4.3 and supports far more hardware. 
It's also where current X developers are working, so it's where new
features will be first.  It also doesn't have the new XFree86 license. 
You could read xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/CHANGELOG and xc/ChangeLog
to see what actually changed.  (Hint: a lot.)

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