Re: X.org <-----> Xfree
At Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:16:49 +0000,
Jon Dowland wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:51:47PM +0100, Roelof Wobben wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I heard a lot about X.org en thatin some distro's X.org wil replace Xfree.
> >
> > Is X.org better than Xfree ??
> > Does someone has X.org getting on work with debian Sarge ??
>
> I see a lot of discussion about packaging and which distro it may end up
> in but nothing about why you might want to use X.org instead of XFree :)
>
IIRC there were a few messages that porting will start post sarge. The reason is
that it will probably take some time to move from monolithic packages to
separate package and for the whole port to stabilize in terms of settings and
to prove stability. Doing it now can push the sarge release by a year.
The three points I know of why X.Org is better:
1. There are licensing issues with xfree which are limiting debian among others
from using upstream versions, so if debian will want to use newer X there
will be no choice but to add X.Org to debian. Not sure about the exact point
but with version 4.4 there is something about giving acknowledgment to the
XFree project at the same level as the distribution and other programs or
something like that.
2. X.Org has real transparency support (I think its called translucency in this
context).
3. DRI support is targeting X.Org and is built in the X.Org tree (which means
that it will probably be integrated into X.Org at some point). It still
compiles for XFree though and I'm not sure if it will ever stop supporting
XFree so I don't know how much of an issue this is.
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System
> at the Tel-Aviv University CC.
>
Reply to: