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Re: Stupid X Q.
Hi, Ben-Nes!
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:12:13AM +0300, you wrote the following:
> What is the difference between X11R6 & XFree86 ?
X.org releases a reference implementation of the X protocol and the
standard X libraries. Their latest release of that code is X11R6.4.
Of course this code is far from being able to run as an X server --
there are no hardware drivers, no OS interface for configuration and
all that stuff; it's just a pile of code implementing a certain
standard. XFree86 takes this reference implementation and turns it
into actually usable software that you can run on your computer.
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