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XFree86 10 Years Old

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the way-to-go-everyone dept.

ChazeFroy writes "XFree86 is now 10 years old. To quote from the page, 'What makes this particularly eventful is that it is fully backwards compatible; this is a true testament to the spirit of the original X protocol of which XFree86 is its finest implementation.'" Ten years and still binary compatible. Very cool.

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  1. Re:X kicks ass, XFree86 doubly so. by HeUnique · · Score: 1, Troll

    And neither of them got the vast driver support that XFree got, and neither of them does video and 3D as XFree offers. BeOS surely offers 3D - but the drivers it got was good 3 years ago. DirectFB doesn't give you 90% of your card's features (maybe accelerated 2D if you're lucky, and some video support - nothing like XvMC extension)..

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    Hetz (Heunique)