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Re: freebsd 3 support


From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 18:02:17 -0800 (PST)

:
:It has come to my attention that Xi Graphics and VMware's X servers rely
:on FreeBSD 3 compatibility. I may be completely alone in this regard,
:but I have a number of computers with graphics cards that aren't
:supported by FreeBSD's XFree86 and hence the only way to run
:FreeBSD/Dragonfly + X on them is using one of the above 2 X servers.
:Hence, it might make sense bring the old signal code back in.
:
:					-Kip

    Hmm.  Well, I hate to say it, but there's a point where we have to cut
    old cruft out and I don't think we can support servers that go 
    unmaintained for that long a period of time.

    What about linux compatibility?  Is it possible to run the linux
    version?

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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