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Re: Do I need XFree86 now that XOrg-x11 is the default X-windowingsystem? (fwd)
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at netscape dot net>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 17:14:14 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Do I need XFree86 now that XOrg-x11 is the default X-windowingsystem? (fwd)
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0404081333360.21641@slinky.cs.nyu.edu><4075AC6E.7020802@netscape.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> pechtcha wrote:
>
> > Harold,
> >
> > I really hate to say this, but "I told you so"... :-D
>
> Yeah, this name change business is a bit of a pain. I hope that this
> whole X11 feud gets resolved eventually, so people can get back to
> harmony and cooperation rather then wasting energy and resources on
> maintaining separate forks. Then again, they aren't our packages, so
> who are we to say?
>
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
Umm, Nicholas, I didn't mean the renaming (which I support), I meant the
"if it's removed, why is it selected" comment (in the original message).
Igor
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