1 What and Where is XFree86?

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XFree86 is a port of X11R6 that supports several versions of Intel- based Unix. It is derived from X386 1.2, which was the X server distributed with X11R5. This release consists of many new features and performance improvements as well as many bug fixes. The release is available as source patches against the X Consortium X11R6 code, as well as binary distributions for many architectures.

See the Copyright Notice in COPYRIGHT .

The sources for XFree86 are available by anonymous ftp from:

ftp.XFree86.org:/pub/XFree86/current

The XFree86 LynxOS port was developed using the `LynxOS AT 2.3 Beta 4-10 1995 Integration'. There shouldn't be significant differences when using the final 2.3 release to build the system.

XFree86 currently supports only LynxOS on the AT platform. The library and client part of XFree86 could although compile without problems on other LynxOS platforms (e.g. SPARC, Motorola-68K or PowerPC).

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