I haven't paid much attention to this. Can anyone give a short
description?

What are the drawbacks/advantages of each system?
Are they both being actively developed?

Do you really think distros will drop XFree for X ?

nathan

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 23:40, Bill Jonas wrote:
> Following a story[1] on Slashdot, I upgraded to X.Org, which is looking
> like it will be the successor to XFree86 due to all the licensing
> hoo-ha. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, ignore this part.)
> Surprisingly enough, Gentoo already had an ebuild in there when I
> checked. So after using quickpkg(1) to make a copy of
> x11-base/xfree-4.3.99.902, I unmerged XFree86 and attempted to merge
> X.Org (x11-base/xorg-x11).
> 
> Well, I guess it was coincidence, but emerge(1) decided to break just
> then. And other people, it seems, have had it break in a similar
> fashion[2][3]. My solution was found in the last post of the first link
> I gave. After merging, I logged out and back in to get /usr/X11R6/bin
> back in my $PATH (since I didn't feel like updating it manually). Then
> there were lots of complaints about libGL-type stuff when I tried to run
> mplayer or glxinfo. Turns out that I simply needed to run "opengl-update
> xorg-x11" due to the way Gentoo handles OpenGL stuff.
> 
> Besides fonts looking a little different, about the only negative
> difference I've noticed is that Yahoo! Messenger is now segfaulting.
> Other than that, everything seems to be fine; Quake 3 Arena, Unreal
> Tournament, and UT2004 are all working properly.
> 
> In case anyone can help out with the ymessenger, issue, here's what
> happens:
> 
> $ ymessenger
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
> 
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
> 
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
> 
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
> 
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
> 
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
> 
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
> 
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
> 
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
> 
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
> 
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
> 
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
> 
> 
> Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkfont.c: line 220 (gdk_font_ref): assertion `font != NULL' failed.
> 
> Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkfont.c: line 220 (gdk_font_ref): assertion `font != NULL' failed.
> Segmentation fault
> 
> It obviously has something to do with the fonts, but my X11 font-fu is
> non-existant.
> 
> [1] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/07/1320251
> [2] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=128037
> [3] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=158444

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