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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!decwrl!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: xdm for freebsd: where? Date: 19 Oct 1993 18:27:07 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 41 Message-ID: <2a1bhr$lcj@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <wilko.750329361@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <29cat4$oks@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <1993Oct17.235518.2110@alf.pec.co.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu Keywords: freebsd xdm xfree In article <1993Oct17.235518.2110@alf.pec.co.nz>, Paul Andrew <paula@alf.pec.co.nz> wrote: >In article <29cat4$oks@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >>BTW - xterm is affected as well. >> >>Yes, on freebsd.cdrom.com is a complete X distribution compiled for FreeBSD. > >Does this mean that I can't put on the stock X11R5 and patch it up >under FreeBSD? Well, sure. You can get stock X11R5 (big distribution) and then patch it yourself using the XFree86 patches. >Unfortunately I only have a mail and news link to the >Internet and it's not possible for me to get large distributions >without a great deal of trouble. I'm not sure what you consider big, but I consider stock X11R5 a BIG distribution. You can do whatever you want, but I don't believe you'll get R5 to work on BSD w/out the XFree86 patches, and why download all of the patches when you can get the binary distribution at the same site. >Please tell me that I don't nee to get the complete X distribution >from freebsd.cdrom.com? You don't have to get the complete X distribution from freebsd.cdrom.com. You can get the binary distribution, or the source distribution, or whatever distribution you want/need. :-) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me