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From: roell@xinside.com (Thomas Roell (grwtzfsl))
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: XFree [was: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD]
Date: 09 Dec 1995 18:49:01 GMT
Organization: The Xperts (tm) !
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>The product is Accelerated-X, the shell script that invokes the
>OS-specific core binary is 'Xaccel', and the packaging tools on the
>System V derivatives think it is 'accelx'.  You can tell how far
>divergent the code base is in Accelerated-X with two simple
>observations:

[stuff deleted]

Kind of boarding telling people about this considering all the other
neat toys we have:

	XVideo	(aka 'Startrek-X-extension) Watch TV while you are
		working ...

	OpenGL	(I should state that we have a fullblown PEX as well,
		but OpenGL is really fast and cool)

	Motif	(I think this was a GUI similar to XView ;-))

>extraordinary and gifted work on X Servers.  I speak as his
>sort-of-boss... and a friend... and a co-founder of X Inside...

I'm speaking just for me, myself and I !

- Thomas
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