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 .
The sources for XFree86 are available by anonymous ftp from:
ftp.XFree86.org:/pub/XFree86/current
Binaries for NetBSD 1.0 are available from:
ftp.XFree86.org:/pub/XFree86/current/NetBSD
ftp.laas.fr:/pub/NetBSD/XFree86-3.1.1
ftp.iastate.edu:/pub/netbsd/XFree86-3.1.1
ftp.eecs.umich.edu:/BSD/XFree86
If you're still running NetBSD 0.9, you'll have to build it from the source. If you've done it and want to share your binaries, please let us know.
This release has also been tested on NetBSD-current of January, 19th 1995 with
option "COMPAT_10" in the kernel config file.
XFree86 now also builds on NetBSD/sparc. See section Building on NetBSD/sparc for details.
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