another question: building xvesa

[james osburn]

i am a gentoo user (mandrake and debian) and i have noticed
that the latest portage snapshots in gentoo did not
include xfree86 but did include x

what is the relationship between xorg and the freedesktop.org?

and i want to build xvesa servers against the uclibc-i386 toolchain
(BIG QUESTION)
does anyone have anyone have any experience with this?

thanks
james (not jam)

>From: Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com>
>To: james osburn <jjosburn at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: some questions
>Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:04:07 +1100
>
>Is there a good explaination on the net somewhere (I'm sure this is a FAQ 
>:-)
>
>quick explanation:
>Xorg is the original X implementation, XFree86 forked X for use on x86
>systems way back and over time became the defacto open source
>implementation of X for Linux/BSD etc.. XFree86 project changed how it
>licensed certain files and had a very "closed" open development model,
>people wanted more freedom, it all came to a head a with the license
>thing and Xorg imported the XFree86 tree from just before all the
>licensing, now X org is continuing development on its tree and is
>becoming (or already has become) the defacto open source
>implementation of X for Linux/BSD systems and also now on Solaris...
>
>XFree86 is free to use all the Xorg code, the path back the other way
>is not so open, but most XFree86 developers (with the exception of
>maybe one or two) are happy to contribute to Xorg as well ....
>
><personal opinion>
>I don't see XFree86 lasting for long most distros have dropped it, the
>mailing lists are quiet as, DRI development has gone totally to Xorg
>apart from Alanh dropping snapshots into the XFree86 tree, personally
>I'm not going to ever help XFree86 get a working drm or anything like
>that, they've made their bed now they can lie in it.... :-)
></personal opinion>
>
>Dave.
>
>On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 02:46:07 +0000, james osburn <jjosburn at hotmail.com> 
>wrote:
> > what are the difference between
> > the xfree and xorg projects?
> >
> > jim
> >
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> >