On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 05:09:26PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Dear X folks : > > One of the things I have long wanted to do is build X from the ground up > and replace the > version running on my workstation. This probably is not recommended by the > Red Hat folks > as I am using RHEL 6 workstation and I am sure that future updates from them > would mess > with any custom work I am doing. Or perhaps not? Really I don't know. > > I was going to create a small Debian Linux virtual machine within VMware > and then use > that to try a build with all X related bits going into /opt under something > like /opt/X11. > > Has anyone done this sort and thing AND written a blog somewhere about it > ? > > Just looking for pointers in the right direction, along with "be careful > of .." type stuff.
you can install a second X server from git (or anywhere) next to your existing one: http://who-t.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/testing-x-servers-from-git.html Obviously, for a production environment I recommend sticking to the Red Hat supported bits, especially since we keep it quite up-to-date anyway. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
