[wplug] Is XFree86 4.4 worth it?

Brian Sammon brians+ at cs.cmu.edu
Mon Mar 1 22:10:26 EST 2004


> OpenBSD is even stranger to me.  They don't even install
> X by default, so they don't have to do anything special,
> as X is only an addon program and not technically a
> part of OpenBSD.

I'm pretty sure the OpenBSD folks consider X to be part of the "core" OpenBSD 
distribution.   The main distinction is that their X codebase is audited for 
security issues along with the rest of the core.  If it wasn't, it'd be in 
ports/packages.





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