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From: kaleb@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: XFree86-2.0
Date: 3 Nov 93 23:58:38 GMT
Organization: X Consortium
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <kaleb.752371118@kanga.x.org>
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In the "compliments will get you everywhere" department, my mosquito sized
brain thinks that if I already have XFree86-1.3 binaries, fonts, libraries,
etc., then the thing I'm mostly interested in is the new server binary.

I'm loathe to tie up my phone line for many hours downloading a ton of 
unnecessary shit at 9600 baud again too.

But, short of wading through the 1.3-2.0 diffs or getting my witch doctor 
to throw some bones (I'm saving his services for far more important things, 
like putting curses on people. :-)), there doesn't seem to be a convenient 
way to determine what I need. Sadly enough, it doesn't seem to be covered 
in the READMEs either.

I can't think of any reason why the 1.3 binaries, etc. wouldn't work, but
then I'm not the one who's hacking up the X sources in XFree86 either.
Anyone on the XFree86 development team care to venture an opinion about
what pieces are really necessary.

--

Kaleb Keithley