X servers

[Geert Hendrickx]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:26:18PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:09:20 +0200
> Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx at ua.ac.be> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 02:01:21AM -0700, Jammet wrote:
> > > What is the differnce really between x.org and xfree86 and all the
> > > others? I know there are 3 or 4 differnt servers atleast, what are
> > > the advantages and disavantages to each and so on?
> > 
> > X.org forked from XFree86 (recently), because XFree86 changed their
> > license in 4.4.  The differences (now) are very small, but of course
> > they may diverge more in the future.  FreeBSD, as well as most Linux
> > distributions, have adopted X.org instead of XFree86 4.4.  
> > 
> > I upgraded from XFree86 4.3 to X.org 6.7.0, and I haven't noticed
> > any difference (yet), except that XF86Config is now xorg.conf :-). 
> > They did include some new video-drivers though.  
> 
> So when did we adopt Xorg? From what I've been hearing on the X11
> like, the plans appear to be to have them coexist.

X.org 6.7.0 is in the Ports tree, XFree86 4.4 is not.  

Anyway, I would very much like to see FreeBSD supporting both of them
(AFAIK, they would be the only one who do).  

I don't understand why *BSD would drop a package because of a
GPL-incompatible license.  NetBSD has XFree86 4.4.  

GH