The X Consortium doesn't exist any more - X.org is the current industry body responsible for the X standards.
XFree86 is produced by the XFree86 Project, a separate organization with different goals. The XFree86 people do release both source code and binary releases.
(This is not to say X.org & XFree86 don't work closely together - the XFree86 Project is an honorary member of X.org, which means they get all the voting rights, without having to pay the membership fees charged to the other members.)
If you download X11R6.6 from X.org you'll find it's the source of vast amounts of the XFree86
implementation as well as most other UNIX implementations. XFree86 was originally just filling in the x86 specific frame buffer drivers, but has expanded in the later releases to include many other changes as well.
(And at the API level, there were no major changes in X11R6.6 - it was mostly fixing bugs and adding donations of code from
Sun & DEC to implement improved non-English language support and accessiblity support
for handicapped users.)
No, the licenses are the same. The primary difference is the goals - the X.org release is designed to be a portable, stable, sample implementation for the X.org members to use as the basis for their X implementations.
XFree86 is an implementation based on the X.org
sample implementation (XF 4.0.3 is based on X.org X11R6.5.1) with support for a large variety of hardware devices added, as well as some experimental extensions, such as the Render extension used for anti-aliasing.
It can be, or it can be quite small and sleek. Remember X was originally designed to run on DEC MicroVax & Sun 68020/68030 workstations with 4 MB of RAM - an environment much less powerful than a modern handheld.
To anyone who has written much perl, especially those who have done so with the help of Usenet or the excellent O'Reilley books, the two words "Randal Schwartz" are what make this interesting.
To the rest of slashdot, it's simply another example that big corporations don't think the same way as hackers.
Try the early 90's. For instance, SGI's OpenGL and X:
An Introduction documentation from 1994 discusses GLX and refers back to papers presented at conferences in 1992 about running OpenGL apps under X.
What happened "a few years ago" (1999 to be exact) was SGI open sourcing their GLX implementation.
The W Hotels chain advertises that their rooms include "hi-speed Internet access ports, web browser television and two-line cordless telephones." (The chain is owned by the same corp who owns Westin, Sheraton, Four Points & Caesar's.) There's only a handful of them around the US, but they do have one in LA.
> Keep in mind the ultra 10 give you SMP support.
No it won't - you can only put 1 CPU in an Ultra 10. You need to go up to a Ultra 60/80 or Sun Blade 1000 for multiple CPU's in a Sun workstation.
Whoever told you that is wrong. The SS20 is a sun4m and is still fully supported in Solaris 8. Only sun4c (Sparc 1/2/IPC/etc.) & Voyager support were dropped in Solaris 8.
NFS can be configured to use various authentication methods on many OS'es, including DES & kerberos. Unfortunately,
Linux NFS only supports the simple "trust the client host not to lie to you" default NFS authentication. This should change when
NFSv4 is adopted.
It's not the entire campus IT department, but
students have been running a computer facility at the University of California at Berkeley for over a decade. The OCF was the first place on campus that offered e-mail accounts to students regardless of major (previously only certain majors like engineering students got accounts) and then was the first to offer students the ability to put up web pages. They are still providing services the University thinks are unneccessary, such as UNIX accounts and 24-hour lab access. Most of the machines have come from donations and all the work is done by student volunteers. Volunteers are trained by their peers and emphasis is given on acting professionally and ethically.
I was surprised there weren't more ads referencing 2001 - the closest I saw was Pepsi's Kasparov vs. Computer ad, and
I didn't see a single ad from Apple, one of the companies most responsible for making the Superbowl ads what they are today. (Although at first I thought the George Foreman Grills were some new Apple notebook.)
Apple missed the perfect chance to merge their 1984 classic with 2001 - just imagine this ad:
[Footage from
2001 of HAL's memory being removed, chip by chip] In March 2001,
Apple Computer will release MacOS X, with
memory protection, so one bad program can't corrupt the entire computer. And you'll see why 2001 won't be like 2001.
Ok, so it's an ad only a geek could love - perhaps better would have been an over-the-top tongue-in-cheek Microsoft ad like this:
[Footage looks just like original Apple ad, except this time the woman has on a t-shirt
with a penguin instead of a Mac logo, and the
hammer bounces off the screen instead of
making it explode.] In 2001, Microsoft will release new products to control your computer, your network, your video games, your telephone, your handheld PC, and even your TV. All your information, controlled by the products of one company decidated to showing you why 2001 will be just like
1984.
(This is probably why they only pay me to write software, not TV ads.)
Cingular has only been around for a couple
of weeks - it was formed by the merger of the cellular divisions of BellSouth & SBC (Southwestern Bell/Pacific Bell). Full details are on their web site of course.
Usenix has had several open source papers published in the proceedings of various conferences - I'd imagine various ACM & IEEE
conferences also have had papers on the
subject.
For alternative views, there's also a couple of papers at:
Dropping version numbers for release dates doesn't work if you have multiple branches,
like Netscape or the Linux kernel.
If you only have release dates, you'ld end up
wondering if Linux 2001-01-15 is
really a better version than 2001-01-04, when
in fact 2001-01-15 might be a 2.2 series kernel and the earlier release date was a 2.4.
Couldn't it also be used to encrypt/protect data files as well? (Has anyone pointed out to the FBI & NSA that this could be yet another way to block what they consider to be their god-given right to read everyone's electronic data?)
Perhaps companies could use it to make sure
hard drives are unreadable outside their corporate networks or without a key stored on the employee's smart-card ID badge.
At least in the US, cell phone companies are
required to let calls to 911 go through, even
if the phone isn't under contract. That's why
many of the recycling programs give them to people like domestic violence victims, so they can call the police if they're under attack, not to chat while driving down the freeway.
Only if you ignore companies much older and larger than any Linux company. Otherwise you'ld notice
both Compaq & IBM are in both the Foundation & the League.
Try 2^128 in IPv6. And of course, not all of those 2^32 in IPv4 are available - large chunks are reserved for things like multicast. Plus since addresses are distributed in blocks, while there may be many unused addresses in some of those blocks, they aren't available for other ISP's to use.
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XFree86 is produced by the XFree86 Project, a separate organization with different goals. The XFree86 people do release both source code and binary releases.
(This is not to say X.org & XFree86 don't work closely together - the XFree86 Project is an honorary member of X.org, which means they get all the voting rights, without having to pay the membership fees charged to the other members.)
(And at the API level, there were no major changes in X11R6.6 - it was mostly fixing bugs and adding donations of code from Sun & DEC to implement improved non-English language support and accessiblity support for handicapped users.)
Then you'll probably be disappointed since the
hardware requirements for this release list a
24bpp graphics card as a requirement.
No, the licenses are the same. The primary difference is the goals - the X.org release is designed to be a portable, stable, sample implementation for the X.org members to use as the basis for their X implementations.
XFree86 is an implementation based on the X.org sample implementation (XF 4.0.3 is based on X.org X11R6.5.1) with support for a large variety of hardware devices added, as well as some experimental extensions, such as the Render extension used for anti-aliasing.
Metro Link maintains the official X.org master CVS repository and is responsible for putting together the official X.org releases, like last week's release of X11R6.6.
It can be, or it can be quite small and sleek. Remember X was originally designed to run on DEC MicroVax & Sun 68020/68030 workstations with 4 MB of RAM - an environment much less powerful than a modern handheld.
To anyone who has written much perl, especially those who have done so with the help of Usenet or the excellent O'Reilley books, the two words "Randal Schwartz" are what make this interesting.
To the rest of slashdot, it's simply another example that big corporations don't think the same way as hackers.
Try the early 90's. For instance, SGI's OpenGL and X: An Introduction documentation from 1994 discusses GLX and refers back to papers presented at conferences in 1992 about running OpenGL apps under X.
What happened "a few years ago" (1999 to be exact) was SGI open sourcing their GLX implementation.
The W Hotels chain advertises that their rooms include "hi-speed Internet access ports, web browser television and two-line cordless telephones." (The chain is owned by the same corp who owns Westin, Sheraton, Four Points & Caesar's.) There's only a handful of them around the US, but they do have one in LA.
> Keep in mind the ultra 10 give you SMP support.
No it won't - you can only put 1 CPU in an Ultra 10. You need to go up to a Ultra 60/80 or Sun Blade 1000 for multiple CPU's in a Sun workstation.
Whoever told you that is wrong. The SS20 is a sun4m and is still fully supported in Solaris 8. Only sun4c (Sparc 1/2/IPC/etc.) & Voyager support were dropped in Solaris 8.
NFS can be configured to use various authentication methods on many OS'es, including DES & kerberos. Unfortunately, Linux NFS only supports the simple "trust the client host not to lie to you" default NFS authentication. This should change when NFSv4 is adopted.
The faculty advisor has written several papers on his previous experiences doing similar projects at high schools.
Apple missed the perfect chance to merge their 1984 classic with 2001 - just imagine this ad:
Ok, so it's an ad only a geek could love - perhaps better would have been an over-the-top tongue-in-cheek Microsoft ad like this: (This is probably why they only pay me to write software, not TV ads.)Cingular has only been around for a couple of weeks - it was formed by the merger of the cellular divisions of BellSouth & SBC (Southwestern Bell/Pacific Bell). Full details are on their web site of course.
For alternative views, there's also a couple of papers at:
If you only have release dates, you'ld end up wondering if Linux 2001-01-15 is really a better version than 2001-01-04, when in fact 2001-01-15 might be a 2.2 series kernel and the earlier release date was a 2.4.
Perhaps companies could use it to make sure hard drives are unreadable outside their corporate networks or without a key stored on the employee's smart-card ID badge.
At least in the US, cell phone companies are
required to let calls to 911 go through, even
if the phone isn't under contract. That's why
many of the recycling programs give them to people like domestic violence victims, so they can call the police if they're under attack, not to chat while driving down the freeway.
Solaris is $75 for any use, on any machine
with 8 processors or less, sparc or intel.
MacOS sells for around the same price as Windows most places.
Only if you ignore companies much older and larger than any Linux company. Otherwise you'ld notice
both Compaq & IBM are in both the Foundation & the League.
Why wait? Solaris 8 10/00 already includes both KDE & GNOME on the Freeware Companion CD.
KJZZ is the local station in Utah which carries the shows from the nationwide UPN network.
If you go somewhere else, you'll find Level 9 on whatever the local UPN station is there, such as KBHK here in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Try 2^128 in IPv6. And of course, not all of those 2^32 in IPv4 are available - large chunks are reserved for things like multicast. Plus since addresses are distributed in blocks, while there may be many unused addresses in some of those blocks, they aren't available for other ISP's to use.