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#! rnews 2992 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!van-bc!news.rmii.com!usenet From: Jeremy Chatfield <jdc@xinside.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: XFree [was: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD] Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 11:40:13 -0700 Organization: X Inside Inc Lines: 43 Message-ID: <30C8868D.167EB0E7@xinside.com> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49rm0g$o8o@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <DJ2IBL.71t@nntpa.cb.att.com> <DJ3DM7.n0L@kroete2.freinet.de> <4a14v5$1lq@dyson.iquest.net> <DJ533J.DDs@kroete2.freinet.de> <HAFNER.95Dec8004546@dartpub.augusta.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: night.xinside.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (X11; I; BSD/OS 2.0 i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:30737 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10726 comp.unix.advocacy:12340 comp.unix.misc:20163 Walter 'madhouse' Hafner wrote: ... > BTW: AFAIK (don't know the other members of XInside, sorry), Thomas is > still the only developer (or: "Chief Scientist", according to his > business card :-)) of Xaccel. Actually, Thomas' first public identification, on a badge at a meeting just before the company business cards arrived, credits him as the "Chef Scientist". Given his interest in Pizza, this seems appropriate. We almost changed the business cards to match. We have some other developers, including other X Server specialists, but they are mostly working on other projects; Thomas is definitely the lead for the group, and is still the primary maintainer and developer for the Intel UNIX based Server. The product is Accelerated-X, the shell script that invokes the OS-specific core binary is 'Xaccel', and the packaging tools on the System V derivatives think it is 'accelx'. You can tell how far divergent the code base is in Accelerated-X with two simple observations: + No modelines, no pixel clocks used at all in configuration or monitor description files, or board config files, etc. + The core binary is a dynamic linker; chipset drivers are in OS-neutral dynamically linked files. We compile once, we test once, and then all OS's are immediately supported with the new capabilities/bug fixes/etc. You *never* link the Server, as with XFree86. There's obviously far more differences than this, but these two alone should be enough to show that this is a new generation of Thomas' extraordinary and gifted work on X Servers. I speak as his sort-of-boss... and a friend... and a co-founder of X Inside... Cheers, JeremyC. -- Jeremy Chatfield +1 303/298-7478 FAX:+1 303/298-1406 mailto:jdc@xinside.com X Inside Inc, 1801 Broadway, 17th Floor, Denver, CO 80202 Commercial X Server - for more information please try these services http://www.xinside.com mailto:info@xinside.com ftp://ftp.xinside.com