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LCA: Two talks on the state of X

LCA: Two talks on the state of X

Posted Feb 9, 2008 12:30 UTC (Sat) by ernest (subscriber, #2355)
In reply to: LCA: Two talks on the state of X by LWN_net
Parent article: LCA: Two talks on the state of X

Hmmm. I doubted that, so I did a quick google search. 

If i combine bsd and x.org I get much more recent page, some of them with content indicating 
x.org is being used.

When combining bsd and xfree86 I get many more hits, but most of them from the xfree86 web 
site, and also usually older hits.

Specifically:
- when searching the openbsd web site faqs, x.org is mentioned in many places. not so xfree
- on the apple web site is said that X on OSX is x.org based
- from the freebsd wiki we can see that x.org is the default since about a year (but xfree is
also 
being used).
- Similarely netbsd build system explains about x.org, but mentions that xfree can also be
used. 

From all that I gather xfree usage is being dropped from the bsd community in favor of x.org.

Ernest.


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