[laptop-discuss] Re: Dell Latitude D610 B48

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Sat Oct 7 23:05:13 PDT 2006


Harvey Raja wrote:
> I'm just about to start the installation in text mode. What is the difference between Xorg & Xsun? I guess standard sun boxes with Solaris use XSun, and xorg is the opensource version?

Xsun is Sun's old proprietary fork of the X11 server, Xorg is the
current open source release.   Sun is currently transitioning from
Xsun to Xorg - on x86 machines, Xorg is the recommended and preferred
X server which offers better perfomance on most systems and more
features than Xsun.

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     -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
      Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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