Ok, Suse fans, I just received a revelation from the XFree86.org mailing list which turned away an XFree (Ubuntu user) because he is using Xorg. Well, my Suse 10.0 uses Xorg as well... so, at least in XFree86 land, Xorg is no longer considered XFree86??

Old news, dude. (Febuary, 2004?) SuSE switched way back with 9.2

Is Xorg an XFree fork of sorts---?

Yes, it was a big noisy affair. http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2003-March/000268.html

Is XFree86 irrelevant now?

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On Monday 19 March 2007 19:24, M Harris wrote:

Ok, Suse fans, I just received a revelation from the XFree86.org mailing list which turned away an XFree (Ubuntu user) because he is using Xorg. Well, my Suse 10.0 uses Xorg as well... so, at least in XFree86 land, Xorg is no longer considered XFree86?? Is Xorg an XFree fork of sorts---? Is XFree86 irrelevant now?

That happened a few years ago. XFree86 made a change to their license (essentially an advertising clause), and that coupled with the dissatisfaction with some core X developers in the working methods of XFree led to them departing. They took the last version of XFree (4.4) still licensed under the old license, and took over the X consortium's X.org web domain They also took over the original code base of X (version 11, release 6.6 at the time) This all happened just over two years ago, and it can all be read about on www.x.org I don't think any distro still uses XFree86 (but I haven't actively looked, so I could be wrong) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org