On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:04:09 +0100 (BST) "Chris J" <cej [at] nightwolf.org.uk> wrote: > > And Lo! The Great Prophet " Richard Ibbotson" uttered these words of > wisdom... > > > I can't argue with that. But, like most people who use Linux as > > well as the BSDs I find that X-config on the BSDs is still the same > > as it used to be on the Debian distro many years ago. xf86config is unlikely to sprout a GUI on any platform. Xfree 3.3 comes with XF86Setup and 4.x comes with xf86cfg for graphical setup. Personally I prefer minimal installation tools as I will only use them once. > If we're talking about the text-only config screen, that still exists > in the latest version of XFree. The X-based X config changed in XFree > 4, so if the BSD's are hanging back on XFree 3, it won't have > changed... :) Xfree 4.x is available for NetBSD 1.5.x and 4.2 comes as standard with OpenBSD 3.1. I haven't looked at FreeBSD but I assume it comes with 4.x as they're chasing Linux desktop users. X/desktop usage isn't really where [Net|Open]BSD excels IMHO, I prefer Linux for commercial software and and multimedia hardware support and BSD for hacking about with. > Btw, there is a beta of Slackware 9.0 out (follow the > slackware-current stuff) that uses gcc 3.2. It is probably going to be > a few months before 9 is released properly, so there will be lots of > changes & fixes in the mean time. The suggestion is Patrick's gone > public early to find all the problems gcc 3.2 will give. Of which > there will probably be many. But if anyone's interested in bleeding > edge stuff, grab slackware-current from a mirror. Personally I'm going to wait until gcc 3 works relatively well and is proven before leaving 2.9.5 --Andrew -- sparc sun4c stuff: http://www.lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk/sparc PGP key for list [at] lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk: http://www.lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk\ /list.lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk.asc
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