Daniel, The XFree86 project is the reason why graphics drivers and features on *nix was playing catchup with Windows and Mac. Imnalla it was forked off to the Xorg project instead. I would read what is written on the xfree site with a good pinch of salt as I personally think that as a project they did more of a dis-service than a service to the community.
-- Raphael On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:47 AM, daniel <dan...@onvol.net> wrote: > *http://mybrainrunslinux.com/node/2 * > (How to Setup Ubuntu for Reinstalling your applications without losing your > data) > *http://www.xfree86.org/#rel47 > > * > > XFree86 runs primarily on UNIX(R) and UNIX-like operating systems like Linux, > all of the BSD variants, Sun Solaris both native 32 and 64 bit support, > Solaris x86, Mac OS X (via Darwin) as well as other platforms like OS/2 and > Cygwin. > > What XFree86 does, is provide a client/server interface between the display > hardware (those physical things like the mouse, keyboard, and video > displays) and the desktop environment, (this is typically called a window > manager as it deals with how X is displayed i.e. the overall appearance). > Yet X it goes beyond that and also gives the infrastructure and a > standardized application interface (API). > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > MLUG-list@linux.org.mt > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > >
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