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- From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
- Subject: Re: which X386 in agate is better?
- Message-ID: <sxsnztn.hasty@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 18:39:54 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Sep9.031159.13322@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk>
- Keywords: X386
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- In article <1992Sep9.031159.13322@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk> ko053@cucs11.cs.cuhk.hk (Patrick Ko) writes:
- >I've the 386bsd up and running with 150M partition
- >with 20M DOS partition healthy. TCPIP under ethernet
- >card NE2000 with another DOS machine doing NCSA ftp
- >things, fine.
- >
- >Now I am going to get a copy of X386 and I found
- >there are 2 directories that contain it. One is
- >in /pub/incoming/X386 and the other is in /pub/386BSD/ports-0.1.
- >
- >Is there anybody who kindly tell me what are the
- >differences between them? Which one should I get?
- >
- >Thanks for all you guys.
- >
-
- The /pub/incoming/X386 in agate is the latest relese of X386 (which
- has been renamed to Xfree86). We are waiting for kernel patches and
- this is the reason we have not release X386. As for the current
- X386 in /pub/incoming from an X11R5 point of view is rock solid.
- Feel free to read the release notes - it states all the bug fixes
- done so far to the kernel and to X386. There has been many installations
- using the /pub/incoming/X386 and have reported no problems to me.
-
- The reason why I am posting this is that the net independent of me
- has discover the release in /pub/incoming/X386.
-
- And, don't ask me what kernel patches are forth-coming because I
- don't know.
-
-
- Hope this helps,
- Amancio Hasty
-
-