Re: What version of Xorg?

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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:00:07 +0000 Darren Salt
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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.

The significant factor here is that 6.9.0 (X.org 1.0) was X.org's last
monolithic release; 7.0 (1.1) is a modular release, but (AIUI) otherwise
identical.

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.

Mine says "X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90".

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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?

The version number isn't a decimal number; it's a string with numeric
components.

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