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| View Poll Results: What do you use? | |||
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2 | 6.90% |
| Xorg |
  
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22 | 75.86% |
| Both |
  
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1 | 3.45% |
| Neither |
  
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4 | 13.79% |
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11-Apr-2005, 09:29
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Xorg vs XFree86
Just interested. Also, anyone want to enlighten me to the differences?
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12-Apr-2005, 00:21
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The difference is that XFree choose a "non free software compliant" license (contained an advertising clause) and they forked the latest version (the last one that shipped under gpl) and continued developing their own version of X (X.org). Nowadays XFree has little developers, because most went to X.org and X.org is in many feature superior to XFree.
There was a whole soap opera regarding this, google it. |
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13-Apr-2005, 04:44
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The only reason I use XFree is because that's what suse 9.1 personal comes with -- single cd dl and you've got a suse system up and running, can't beat it.
I'm hoping they release another iso soon.
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23-Feb-2006, 19:38
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then
what about Directfb 
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24-Feb-2006, 22:09
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The only up to date single-CD linux I know about is Knoppix. This distribution is all about running linux just from a bootable CD (i.e. not installing it). Edit: Gawd, didn't realize how old this thread was. Oh, well.
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28-Feb-2006, 17:14
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meandering Velosoph
Join Date: Apr 2002
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04-Mar-2006, 12:04
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Location: England
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I think lots and lots of distro's come on one bootable CD, infact I'd be pretty annoyed if one didn't.
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04-Mar-2006, 13:19
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04-Mar-2006, 13:50
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humm.... Xorg seem many people use this
 but... what you think about DirectFB 
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04-Mar-2006, 16:32
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a.k.a. Ingenu
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Apsley, U.K.
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You need latest Xorg for Xgl, so who wouldn't pick it up ?!
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05-Mar-2006, 17:09
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XGL ouais fau voir
 actually i dont use xgl for 3dcoding but Mesa over DFB  the truth is im using an old video chip ... inside kernel src <DRM_SECTION> the board is not avaliable  so even if i put my hands on Xorg everything will slow unless there's no need kernel layer for direct rendering |
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