Re: XOrg vs XFree86

From: Mark Haney (mark.haney_at_doctordirectory.com)
Date: 03/31/04


To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:55:31 -0500

My understanding is that Xorg is a fork of the existing latest XFree86 4.0
libs. Am I right on that?

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:53:36 +0200, Michal Zeravik <michalz@olomouc.com>
wrote:

> What about features difference between Xorg and XFree86?
> Are they really full compatible?
> With extensions as well?
> And xft, nvidia, v4l, freetype ?
>
> michalz
>
>
> T. Ribbrock wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:03:13PM +0000, Paul Thomas wrote:
>>
>>
<snip>
>>
>> The new or the old one? Apache has been forked as well e.g. by OpenBSD,
>> as Apache's licence has been changed for the worse as well.
>>
>> Cheerio,
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>

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