[ydl-gen] X.org vs X.Free

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Nick:

Regarding finding a CD drive for your computer.  You are probably aware 
of all the standard places for finding a drive.  I discovered a 
reliable and yet little known company called Compuvest (a few years 
ago), which offers quite a lot of hardware of all kinds (including CD 
or optical drives), at really surprising prices.  They have become a 
personal preference which I check first, when I am looking for 
equipment.  Maybe, what they have could be useful to you?  Here's a 
link to them:

http://www.compuvest.com/

On Jul 13, 2006, at 8:36 PM, Nicholas wrote:

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>> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:53:54 -0400
>> From: "Christopher Murtagh" <christopher.murtagh at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] X.org vs X.Free was Re: yellowdog-general
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>> On 6/27/06, Nicholas Sinnott-Armstrong <nova at macintoshclub.com> wrote:
>>> OK, I did this and all the X stuff pointed to XFree86 4.x, not X.org.
>>>
>>>> The other option you have is to go to x.org itself and find what is
>>>> available there  - download the source, compile it, build the
>>>> executables and install them.  However getting what is current from
>>>> them may not help you if their package requires the more current
>>>> packages available in the Linux kernel or other dependencies which
>>>> replace those you may be familiar with.  And as some dependencies 
>>>> are
>>>> shared across different applications this may become an unwieldy
>>>> problem pretty quickly.  Depending on the computer you use for YDL 
>>>> you
>>>> have a variety of choices.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I guess this is my best bet.
>>
>> Re-compiling X.org might be a lot of work. YDL4.1 uses X.org, and I'm
>> pretty sure that YDL4.0 does too. I think the last YDL release to use
>> XFree was YDL3. Depending on how much you've customized your system,
>> maybe upgrading to 4.1 might help your situation a bit?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris
>
> Yes, I tried to recompile X.org, but it gave nasty errors (IIRC, some
> sort of dependency thing), and took up about 1GB of my 5, so I removed
> it. I currently do not have a working CD drive for that computer, so I
> guess I cannot do anything for now. Once I can, either 4.1 or Ubuntu (I
> have it on my desktop and grew fond of apt, which is the same as fink
> for OSX) will go onto it.
>
> nick
>
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