Re: What version of Xorg?

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:00:07 +0000 Darren Salt <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| I demand that Dances With Crows may or may not have written...
|
|> Peter D. staggered into the Black Sun and said:
|>> Hactar wrote:
|>>> <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
|>>>> My previous Slackware 11.0 has Xorg version 6.9.0. I can see from
|>>>> the x.org web site the latest version is 7.3 and 7.4 is coming. I
|>>>> upgraded Slackware to version 12.0 and it seems Xorg now reports
|>>>> version 1.3.0 instead of an expected value in the 6.9 to 7.4 range.
|>>>> Anyone know WTF is that?
|
|> Really Old X: 3.1 .. 3.6
|> Monolithic X: 4.0 .. 6.9
|> Modular X: 1.0 (==7.0) .. onward. No, I don't know why they did that.
|
| Not quite. 6.9 == X.org 1.0; 7.0 == Xorg 1.1.

On my older Slackware 11.0 box, X says it is version 6.9.0, not 1.0. But
the new Slackware 12.0 box, the packing and "X -version" say 1.3.0. The
web site says 7.3 is the latest. It seems I have something about 15 years
old.


| [snip]
|> Xorg 1.3 == Xorg 7.3 AFAICT.
|
| That's 7.2.

Even more confusing if you can't simply subtract 6.0. Subtract 6.1?
What is the official delta? Or is it a more complex formula that a
simple linear subtraction?

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