On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:52:19 -0700,
A-B C. <atakeoutcanton@adams-blaketakeout.com> wrote:
> I cut the following from another thread.

Which in turn came from the -current changelog, originally.

> Will the XF86config file I have now not work in 10.0?

Yes, it will. Although X11 uses /etc/X11/xorg.conf instead of
XF86Config, the syntax of the file is exactly the same. You just need to
cp, mv or ln your XF86Config file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. (I found this
was all I needed to do to 'migrate' from XFree86 to X11.

> I'm confused as to which kind of "X" I'm using in 9.1.

You'll be using an X that's nearly identical in usage to one in 9.1,
except that it'll be maintained by another group/organisation.

> How about a little history, please.

IIRC, there was a recent change in XFree86's licensing that was a
concern for a lot of distribution vendors. Distributions have moved over
to X.org's X sources, which are based on the XFree sources before the
licensing change.


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