Hi Chuck, * Chuck Robey <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wondering, I've lost track of the status of XFree86 on > FreeBSD.or really, at all. It looks like all of the Xfree86 servers > have been removed from ports.
The XFree86 project has been dying ever since almost all the active development moved to the Xorg-project. Xorg has many new features that XFree86 doesn't have, like hardware compositing and improved device detection. > I was looking on the www.Xfree86.org website, and from what I see, it > apparently still is generating releases. Also, I downloaded the > latest cvs image from Xfree86, and it built FAR easier that xorg, far > faster, far simpler to configure ... Why should it matter how easy it is to build a piece of software? You can just run `make -C /usr/ports/x11/xorg install clean' or `pkg_add -r xorg'. > but when I look into FreeBSD-ports, the few ports which still have the > Xfree86 name, they're really cheating (talking about the drivers), > they seem to be really xorg drivers, just haven't had their names > fixed. This is a naming decision by the Xorg project. For some reason, all drivers are still called xf86-*. It's pretty hard to remove all references to XFree86 in hundreds of megabytes of source code. -- Ed Schouten <[email protected]> WWW: http://80386.nl/
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