Re: xorg , xfree86?
ChadDavis wrote:
Hey there. What X system does my recent (installed yesterday ) debian
etch system use? Isn't there adifference between xfree86 and xorg?
The docs I found on the debian site are for xfree86 but my system
seems to have X11 / xorg stuff on it? Sort me out if I'm clueless.
Etch uses xorg, but you may encounter artifacts of xfree86, this being
the tail-end of a transition period.
The primary difference which I have noticed is a significant
simplification of the keyboard layout scheme; xorg is cleaner and easier
to modify than is xfree86.
But beware! Until a month or so ago, you could mess up your system on a
royal scale by making changes to xfree86 even though xorg is in use.
But with each release, the xfree86 code is being removed.
If you are a Dvorak user, xorg now provides the "classic" Dvorak layout,
as well as the "modified" Dvorak layout. The classic layout is the
original scheme, which was devised by Dvorak about 1936; the modified
layout is a severely-compromised scheme which was standardized by ANSI
about 1981. (It is appears that the members of the ANSI committee were
not touch typists, or else were coerced; hence, their failure to
standardize the original Dvorak layout.) The classic Dvorak layout has
been available in Debian for a year or two for the virtual console.
RLH
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