X11 and Xfree86

Erik Steffl steffl at bigfoot.com
Tue Oct 28 14:35:39 PST 2003


M.D. DeWar wrote:
> What is the difference between x11r6 and xfree86 ?
> I went to xfree site and ended up at x.org and the d/l are not the same.

   X11R6 is specification

   xfree86 is implementation of the specs

   x.org provideS another implementation, that's what you can download 
from x.org (I don't know whether these two implementations are 
(completely) independent)

	erik




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