[KLUG Members] Re: quick question on X in debian

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On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:08:25AM -0400, Richard Harding was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> I have a set of instructions for getting X running with
> XFree86-common, x-window-system, KDE packages and the like and I was
> wondering if the new standard is going to be Xorg based, does anyone
> have a nice walk through for that? 

What new standard?

If you mean, will Linux and the BSD's permanently switch to X.org's X11
implementation, then yes.

> Is it just a matter of getting Xorg packages to replace the
> XFree86-common or what?

Once they exist, yes. Branden Robinson has said that Debian X will be
X.org based, but even in unstable, he's more interested in pulling DFSG-
compatible code from XFree86 than in packaging X.org's source. He may
have a good reason for this, but I have no idea what it is.

X under Debian is odd. I've never seen a flaky server from them, but
their relase cycle is slow, because they support 10 architectures.

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