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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 8 | <chapter id="x-window-system" xreflabel="X Window System">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="installing.html" ?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <title>X Window System Environment</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para>This chapter contains instructions to build and configure a graphical
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| 14 | user environment. You will need to choose one of the three packages in BLFS
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| 15 | that implements the <application>X Window System</application>:
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| 16 | <application>Xorg</application> X11R6 or X11R7 (<xref linkend="xorg"/> or
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| 17 | <xref linkend="xorg7"/>), or <application>XFree86</application>
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| 18 | (<xref linkend="xfree86"/>). These packages are all quite similar. In fact,
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| 19 | the base system of <application>Xorg</application> is
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| 20 | <application>XFree86</application>-4.4.0RC2. Differences in the licensing
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| 21 | philosophies was the original reason for the split.</para>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <para>A second reason for the forking of <application>X</application>
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| 24 | packages is the stated goals of the developers. Some developers were unhappy
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| 25 | with the administration and progress of <application>XFree86</application>.
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| 26 | The X.org Foundation's future plans include significant improvements to the
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| 27 | internals of the system and more frequent releases.</para>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <para><application>Xorg</application>-&xorg7-version; introduces a completely
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| 30 | autotooled build system, but is otherwise the same codebase as
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| 31 | <application>Xorg</application>-&xorg-version;. Most large commercial
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| 32 | distributions have decided to use the <application>Xorg</application>
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| 33 | package, but several still provide <application>XFree86</application>.</para>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <para><application>XFree86</application> continues to be a solid,
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| 36 | conservative application with excellent driver support.</para>
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| 37 |
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| 39 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="xorg.xml"/>
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| 40 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="xorg7.xml"/>
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| 41 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="xfree86.xml"/>
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| 42 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="x-config.xml"/>
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| 43 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="x-setup.xml"/>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | </chapter>
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