Re: X.org and XFree86

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how come most distro's use x.org now?

On 22/12/05, Nicholas Kaye-Smith <nkayesmith@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:
Does XFree86 support things like composite extensions?
I take it X.org is not based on XFree86.
Thanks.


On 22/12/05, David Dawes < dawes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:17:13PM +1000, Nicholas Kaye-Smith wrote:
>I'm a little bewildered by X.org and Xfree86 so I have a few questions:
>1. How are they different? (especially since they are both implementations
>of the x window system)
>2. Is Xfree86 still being developed?
>3. Does XFree86 support things like composite extensions?
>4. If they are implementations of the x windows system, then what is the x
>window system? Simply an idea or is there code available for the x window
>system?

They are implementations, with extensions, of a "idea" that has at its
core a well-specified network transparent window system.  This
well-specified core is usually referred to as the X Window System Protocol.

XFree86 is still being developed.  XFree86 has been in existence as an
independent volunteer organisation since 1992.  There have been various
incarnations of a vendor-sponsored X group (currently x.org) on and off
for a while.

David
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