Subject: Re: status of modular xorg?
To: Blair Sadewitz <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 01/18/2007 11:25:14
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Blair Sadewitz wrote:
> I've been corresponding wtih Matthieu Herrb (OpenBSD X maintainer and
> long-time X developer), and he told me that xorg-server-1.1.99.903 is
> stable enough for production use. I made some packages and tried out
> Xorg with components all from X11R7.2-RC3 and beyond, and from my
> admittedly cursory testing, it seems just as stable as XFree86 4.6.0
> and more stable than Xorg 6.9.0 from pkgsrc. Now, I realize such
> judgements of stability are mostly subjective, but the fact that all
> of the patches for xorg-server-1.1.1 (and more) have found their way
> upstream is not.
For what it's worth ... I am running modular-xorg-server-1.1.99.903 on
NetBSD which I built via pkgsrc (but not committed anywhere).
Jeremy C. Reed