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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: [Xorg] Differences between Xorg and Xserver
From:       Jim Gettys <Jim.Gettys () hp ! com>
Date:       2004-07-29 14:50:11
Message-ID: 1091112610.5577.22.camel () linux ! site
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On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 10:10, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 06:14, Amir Bukhari wrote:
> > I noticed that both X implementations uses this mailing list. What the
> > differences between them. Is Xserver the feature X Implementation for Xorg?
> 
> There is no software called XServer.  The XServer CVS/project hosts
> experimental code.  It hosts the KDrive based X server, for example. 
> That software is *not* for end-users; it's for developers, testers, and
> experimenters.
> 

One nit: those using embedded devices use kdrive based servers
typically; certainly developers of such devices are interested
in these bits, even if they are not developers of X itself.

Hopefully we'll get all this pulled back together again over
the next 6 months or so...
                                       - Jim



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