On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 03:50:08PM +0000, Andrew Martin Adrian Cater wrote: > Q. Which version of XFree86 will Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 ship with? > > A. XFree86 3.3.2. XFree 3.3.3 was released too late to be automatically > included - the Debian maintainer runs the risk of introducing more > bugs than 3.3.3 solves by an over-hasty release. > Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 ("Potato") will include 3.3.3 as soon as this > is packaged. If, for some reason, you _must_run XFree86 version > 3.3.3, e.g. your hardware is inadeqately supported by XFree86 > version 3.3.2, there are interim workarounds which may allow you > to substitute X server binaries. Please change this to 3.3.2.3. The version that ships with slink will also include one further buffer-overflow-prevention patch from 3.3.3 (the only other security patch known to me). -- G. Branden Robinson | I must despise the world which does not Debian GNU/Linux | know that music is a higher revelation branden@ecn.purdue.edu | than all wisdom and philosophy. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Ludwig van Beethoven
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