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- From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
- Subject: X386 1.2E is changing its name to XFree86
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:01:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.160121.18696@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
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-
- Introducing XFree86
-
- a.k.a
-
- The Great X386 1.2E Renaming
- ----------------------------
-
- There has been a great deal of confusion over the name X386 1.2E, resulting
- in SGCS getting many inquiries about our software. So after some
- discussions with SGCS, and a period of voting amongst our beta-testers,
- we have decided to rename X386 1.2E to XFree86. While this will obviously
- cause some short-term confusion, in the long run, it will make everyone's
- lives simpler.
-
- For now, the current version of the software remains X386 1.2E 1.0.2,
- available in source and binary from the archives listed below. We are
- hard at work on XFree86 1.1, which will be entering beta-test this
- week (no, we don't need any more beta-testers right now, thanks). We
- expect to have this available by the end of the month. Here's a synopsis
- of what to expect in the upcoming release:
-
- 1) MIT fix-17, and any others that are released between now and
- then.
- 2) Several other bug fixes
- 3) Source-level support for 386BSD 0.1 and Mach386 have been folded
- into the main software base
- 4) The software base has been restructured to allow for addition
- of new drivers to the server, including ones for non-SVGA
- hardware.
- 5) Configuration of which drivers and font renderers are built
- into the server. The server can be reconfigured without
- requiring a rebuild.
- 6) The ability to build a binary distribution with the same server
- linking capability (i.e. distribute libraries & objects, then the
- end user configures his server and links it).
- 7) A monochrome server that works with generic VGA hardware, using
- a 64k frame buffer (yielding a virtual screen in the 800x600 range).
- On a 486/33 with an Orchid ProDesigner IIs, this server produced
- 30k xStones.
- 8) Changes to SpeedUp so that most of its functions are no longer
- restricted to a 1024 virtual width (although an ET4000 is still
- required for this speed boost)
- 9) Support for the ATI SVGA chipsets (NOT the 8514/A chipsets).
-
- Things under development that will probably NOT make this release, but will
- be in a future release:
-
- 1) Support for SVR3 shared libraries is being actively pursued.
- 2) Support for Trident TVGA8900C chipset.
- 3) Support for the XINPUT extension in the server.
-
- Where to find the current versions
- ----------------------------------
- The current sources for X386 1.2E 1.0.2 are available as a patch kit
- against MIT X11R5 PL16. They are available from:
-
- export.lcs.mit.edu (under /contrib/X386-1.2E)
- ftp.physics.su.oz.au (under /X386)
- ftp.win.tue.nl (under /pub/X386)
-
- Refer to the README in that directory. Source patches are currently required
- for the following operating systems (listed with their contacts):
-
- Mach386 Joel Jacobson <jake@convex.csd.uwm.edu>
- BSD/386 Jon Block <block@gmf.eds.com>
- 386BSD Rich Murphey <rich@rice.edu>
- Linux Orest Zborowski <obz@raster.kodak.com>
-
- Binary distributions are available from:
-
- SVR4:
- ftp.physics.su.oz.au (under /X386/SVR4)
- ftp.win.tue.nl (under /pub/X386/SVR4)
- f.ms.uky.edu (under /pub2/Xwindows/X386)
- stasi.bradley.edu (under /pub/X386)
-
- SVR3 (ISC 2.2):
- blancmange.ma.utexas.edu (under /pub/ISC)
-
- 386BSD 0.1:
- agate.berkeley.edu (under ???)
-
- For other OS's contact the people listed above for sources
-
- Contact Information
- -------------------
-
- XFree86 (formerly X386 1.2E) is brought to you by
-
- David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.oz.au>
- Glenn Lai <glenn@cs.utexas.edu>
- Jim Tsillas <jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu>
- David Wexelblat <dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com>
-
- Email sent to <xfree86@physics.su.oz.au> will reach the four of us.
-
- Continuing thanks go to our almost 50 beta testers around the world.
-
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