On Mo, 2004-09-13 at 01:49 -0400, Chris Anderson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 00:55 -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > After looking at screenshots of X.org, it seems to be more graphically > > up-to-date than XFree86. But, I have some questions: > > > > 1) Can X.org be apt-gotten? (otherwise, where and how) > > Not officially, there may be a repo somewhere that someone else > maintains though. > > > 2) How difficult is replacing xfree with x.org? > > Extract source, apt-get build-dep xserver-xfree86, make World, make > install. Going backwards could possibly be troublesome (perhaps build to > another prefix). > > > 3) Any issues specific to the ppc architecture I should be aware? Thanks. > > I haven't encountered any thus far. >
Yet another question: What, except the transparency and the shadow-thingy is of advantage in x.org? is anything done noticably better? is it recomendable? greetz, Timo
