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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty 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 Lines: 34 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