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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: 12 Aug 1996 05:57:51 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Jerzy A Mlotkiewicz <jurek@dode.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[Btw. Jerzy, quoting an entire article is considered bad behaviour.]

> If someone has to buy an X server rather than get it for free or some
> time spend downloading it, it would be better to buy it from Sun
> Microsystems...  Solaris for example, will be fixed immediately should
> there be a bug found by a user.. fixes have been known to be out VERY
> quickly..

Interesting.  Doesn't Solaris x86 ship with Accelerated X? ;-)

They call it Xsun, but the structure of the files resembles Xinside
too much...

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)