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Codegen
n00b
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 Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:24 am Post subject: X.Org vs. XFree |
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| What is the difference between these guys? X.org build from source is proving to be a big clusterf*ck. Which is why I am asking. |
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i92guboj
Bodhisattva
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Location: Córdoba (Spain)
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| Most distros are switching to Xorg since XFree development is stuck. There are also legal reasons regarding licenses, I'm no export in licenses and there are anyway much threads relating this thing all over the net. Basically Xorg started as a branch of XFree in one of its laters builds, so there is not so much differences still, although the utf8/unicode and transparencies support are much more developed in Xorg than XFree. |
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Arainach
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X.Org compiles quicker than XFree86 for me. I mean, I can totally rebuild it (emerge -e xorg-x11) while surfing the web in Firefox in about 45 minutes. This on a mere 2.2Ghz Athlon XP with 512MB of RAM.
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