ilia_kr Posted July 4, 2005 Report Share Posted July 4, 2005 What is Xorg and what is XFree86? Aren't they both X window servers? If so, what's the difference? :blink: [moved from Hardware by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 4, 2005 Report Share Posted July 4, 2005 The main diff is their license- xfree's is restrictive... But apart from that, xorg's development is both faster and more consistent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted July 5, 2005 Report Share Posted July 5, 2005 XFree was the main X windows server for the Linux platform. At some stage last year the project was branched with development halting completely on XFree, but continuing on the Xorg branch. So, basically, Xorg is the reincarnation of XFree - they were identical to begin with, but now XFree is dead and Xorg has continued development. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted July 5, 2005 Report Share Posted July 5, 2005 Not quite true, but this issue is still hot, and time will give us a better view of the "battlefield". This isn't an "all-good vs. all-bad" situation, actually. scarecrow did a roughtly good summary. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted July 7, 2005 Report Share Posted July 7, 2005 Not quite true, but this issue is still hot, and time will give us a better view of the "battlefield". This isn't an "all-good vs. all-bad" situation, actually.scarecrow did a roughtly good summary. Yves. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Eh? Battlefield? It's just one group of developers leaving a project and another group picking up where they left off... what do you mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted July 7, 2005 Report Share Posted July 7, 2005 Sure. Things stand as you say as far as developers are concerned. I was rather refering to the hot debates (supposedly by users not developers) that surround the issue. I was not clear enough. Bye :) Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted July 8, 2005 Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 Sure. Things stand as you say as far as developers are concerned. I was rather refering to the hot debates (supposedly by users not developers) that surround the issue. I was not clear enough. Bye :) Yves. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah! Now I understand... didn't know that though, interesting. I didn't realise there was enough room for debate - it seemed pretty simple to me. Thanks for the clarification Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted July 8, 2005 Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 There's a explanation of the situation at linuxreviews.org. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 8, 2005 Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 Aye, Xfree86 is dead. I had a look at the mailing list the other week, there was more spam on it than content. I could count on my fingers how many posts there were from devs in a month, and even then, half of them were answering 'no' to questions like Is Xfree86 or this mailing list dead?. iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 8, 2005 Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 Aye, Xfree86 is dead. It isn't... till the day Sarge makes the big switch. Currently replacing Xfree with Xorg either on Sarge or Sid leaves too many problems unresolved. After that, you will probably be right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 8, 2005 Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 (edited) This was discussed in a previous thread. Edited July 8, 2005 by tyme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac_dispatcher Posted July 9, 2005 Report Share Posted July 9, 2005 XFree86 is not dead. Just any release after version 4.3.0 is GPL troubled. Thats one bad thing about Debian proper (and Mepis). They are stuck on 4.3 when the current version is 4.5. No upgrades or bug fixes because of the new license. Sooner all Distro move to xorg the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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