Do I need XFree86 now that XOrg-x11 is the default X-windowing system? (fwd)

Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Thu Apr 8 21:14:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Nicholas Wourms wrote:

> pechtcha wrote:
>
> > Harold,
> >
> > I really hate to say this, but "I told you so"... :-D
>
> Yeah, this name change business is a bit of a pain.  I hope that this
> whole X11 feud gets resolved eventually, so people can get back to
> harmony and cooperation rather then wasting energy and resources on
> maintaining separate forks.  Then again, they aren't our packages, so
> who are we to say?
>
> Cheers,
> Nicholas

Umm, Nicholas, I didn't mean the renaming (which I support), I meant the
"if it's removed, why is it selected" comment (in the original message).
	Igor
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