Wow. Nice summary!
On Nov 13, 2007 7:22 PM, Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> XFree86 = old and busted
> X.org = new hotness
>
> Licensing and development practices caused X to fork off of XFree86 into
> what is now X.org
>
> Apple's X11 was (10.4 and before) based on old XFree86. Now it is based on
> X.org. Most of X on 10.5 is unmodified from X.org's 7.2 release. The main
> exception to this is xserver which is heavily patched. Hopefully once this
> development gets stabilized, we can roll the Apple changes into the master
> branch of xserver and do Xquartz development on the master branch.
>
> From xdarwin.org:
> * XDarwin: this server runs on Darwin systems without Quartz (i.e.
> non-OS X); not well-tested yet.
> * XDarwinApp: this builds XDarwin.app, which is a full X server using
> Quartz. It has loadable module support for AGL and CGL, and well as
> fullscreen and rootless support.
> * Xquartz: this server runs on Quartz-based systems, and is meant to
> work with X11.app
> * x11app: this builds a version of Apple's X11.app using patches by
> Torrey Lyons; most, but not all, functionality of Apple's original X11.app
> is present in this release.
>
> MacPorts is a ports collection (like BSD Ports) with a focus on Mac OSX. It
> is basically a repository of install scripts, dependencies, etc.
>
>
> On Nov 13, 2007, at 2:45 PM, John Bassett wrote:
>
> I am an X newbie. Would someone explain the differences between Apple's
> X11 versus X.org, Xfree86, Macports and Xdarwin and how they might
> interrelate. I am struggling to get things working on the Mac. Thank You.
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