1 What and Where is XFree86?

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XFree86 3.1.2 is a port of X11R6 that supports several versions of Intel-based Unix. It is derived from X386 1.2, which was the X server distributed with X11R5. This release consists of many new features and performance improvements as well as many bug fixes. The release is available as source patches against the X Consortium X11R6 code, as well as binary distributions for many architectures.

The sources for XFree86 are available by anonymous ftp from:

ftp.XFree86.org:/pub/XFree86/current

Binaries for BSD/OS 2.0 will be available from:

ftp.XFree86.org:/pub/XFree86/current/binaries/Bsdi

If you're running a earlier version of BSD/OS, you'll have to build the distribution from source. Building the distribution on BSD/386 1.1 and 1.0 is untested, but believed to work correctly. If you run into trouble building on a earlier release, please let us know so that we can correct any incompatibilities. If you've done it and want to share your binaries, please let the Bsdi mailing list know. The binaries are built using gcc 2.6.3 as distributed with BSD/OS 2.0. If you build the distribution from source using a gcc compiler built using the generic gcc source code, you may run into problems using the binaries on a 386/486 not equipped with a math coprocessor.

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