From ubuntu-users  Sat Oct 16 04:12:55 2004
From: daniel.stone () canonical ! com (Daniel Stone)
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 04:12:55 +0000
To: ubuntu-users
Subject: XFree86 vs. XOrg
Message-Id: <20041016041255.GN6735 () fooishbar ! org>
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On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 12:47:48PM +0900, Jan Mor?n wrote:
> IDKWITA (I Don't Know What I'm Talking About), but I am a little
> surprised that you've determined that it was less work to backport a hue
> amount of fixes to 4.3 was less effort than working to stabilize X.org
> (especially considering that it has gotten fairly wide testing in other
> distros already).
> 
> Out of curiosity, what factors did determine this?

Debian was already using XFree86, with a large number of these changes.
X.Org is a structural change that impacts other packages, whereas adding
more patches to XFree86 can be done without impacting the world around
it.

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Daniel Stone                                        <daniel.stone at canonical.com>
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