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#! rnews 2906 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!hunter.premier.net!news.cais.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!news.sgi.com!swrinde!howland.erols.net!agate!blanket.mitre.org!linus.mitre.org!usenet From: Eric Brandwine <eric.brandwine@cornell.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,misc.consumers Subject: Re: Why not buy Matrox Millennium Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 10:37:26 -0400 Organization: The MITRE Corporation Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3211E4A6.41C6@cornell.edu> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <stephenkDvp30A.366@netcom.com> <4u7hv4$jcd@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> <slrn50epup.vrk.knaff@choiseul.inrialpes.fr> <4u9oeg$91j@rigel.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> <32093E50.39EB@aloha.net> <slrn50ipqh.a9.cbbrowne@dantzig.brownes.org> <32097C81.167EB0E7@star-gate.com> <3209F875.3652CCE1@pobox.com> <slrn50jupd.nc2.knaff@choiseul.inrialpes.fr> <4ucvq1$k55@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <320B2105.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com> <87viesy5z0.fsf@xeno.xinside.com> <0ns8fAAvbkDyEwNQ@dode.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: triangle.mitre.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP22) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:20387 comp.os.linux.development.system:29782 comp.os.linux.x:38002 comp.os.linux.hardware:47560 comp.os.linux.setup:68706 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1046 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4623 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4404 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:25493 misc.consumers:94486 > Surely the aim of the Xfree project is to provide good software without > having to charge the grossly over-inflated pricings that come with > buying software from a company whose sole aim is to make a profit.. > > ( Microsoft springs to mind on that note, with last yr's release of a > heavily bugged Win 95 ) > > 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.. > > Apart from that.. who needs to pay for an X server anyway? Xfree is > very capable. I use it almost every day on a pc running Linux with only > a 1 mb cirrus logic 5440M card - no flicker problems at all. > -- > Jerzy A Mlotkiewicz The X server for Solaris X86 is a hacked version of Accelerated X. Sun licensed it from Xinside. It is not as configurable, cannot switch resolutions on the fly, and has DPS support, but it is Accel X. Eric Brandwine ericb@cs.cornell.edu