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From: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb KEITHLEY)
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Subject: Re: __NetBSD__ X11R6 i386
Date: 20 Jul 94 11:23:54 GMT
Organization: X Consortium, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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veit@borneo.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes:

>(not an official statement from the XFree86-core team, but valid
>anyway): You should not try to build or fix XFree86 3.0 which is coming
>with X11R6!

>This statement holds for all versions of NetBSD, FreeBSD and Linux,
>and is not a specific problem of NetBSD-current.

I beg to differ. I don't doubt that 3.0 has bugs, and I'll be happy to
get 3.1 whenever it becomes available; but in the mean time 3.0 works 
just fine on FreeBSD 1.1R with my plain old ET4000. I haven't had a single 
crash or any evidence of "instability".  

This is not a statement from an official XFree86 core team member either, 
but I recommend that you do build and use R6/3.0 and if you do uncover 
any bugs that you report them to the XFree86 project and the X Consortium.
I don't know what procedures, if any, the XFree86 project has established
for reporting bugs, but you should use the file .../xc/bug-report as a
template for filing bug-reports with the X Consortium.

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Kaleb KEITHLEY
X Consortium