Q: state of the X (as related to fbsd).

[Klaus Robert Suetterlin]

Dear all,

thanks for all the time spent on maintaining X11 under FreeBSD.

I have questions on the XFree86 / Xorg matter and how its going to
be handled by fbsd developers / maintainers.  (To answer the obvious
questions: I read the FAQ entry 11.2., I reqad through the freebsd-x11
mail archive.)

1) Why should anyone (I) use the Xorg software bundle?  I mean
``really''.  I mean ``today''.

2) Is there some kind of (in)official decision to choose one over
the other?  Or is there a strong personal feeling of the X11 (and
related technology) maintainers involved?

3) What keeps the XFree86-4(.4.0) port update from beeing committed?

Regards, Robert S.
--
If anyone likes to know my feelings in that matter:

-  Xorg was unable to support its own code base.   Even though they
are a new organisation now, I do not believe they will cope much
better after ``updating'' to Xfree86-4.3.99 and adding their ``many
changes maintained elsewhere''.  (They seem to rely on freedesktop.org
to do the xserver for them.)

- Yet ``[...] freedesktop.org is just a "collaboration zone" where
ideas and code can be tossed around[...]''.  The ``X Server'' is
simply a project hosted there.  I am unable (inkompetent)  to judge
its technical quality (or compare it to XFree86).  How can anyone
today decide wether X Server or XFree86 will develop faster / better?

- I (Robert L. User) was unable to find anything except ``project
split'', ``new licnese'', ``I'm pissed for some personal reason''
fud on this topic.  Especially the freebsd faq entry is vague and
I think misleading.