Subject: Re: XFree86 on alpha
To: Torsten Harenberg <harenberg@physik.uni-wuppertal.de>
From: None <kpneal@pobox.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/16/2003 13:33:48
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:38:27AM +0100, Torsten Harenberg wrote:
> I once asked Mel (the guy from caseydoodle.com) if we wouldn't like to
> include his patches into xsrc, but he estimated that only very few people
> uses his X collection.
> 
> So I'm really wondering how many alphas (running X) are still be used out
> there...

But running X on an alpha is hard because of the need to go and get
source or binaries from mel. This is a disincentive to actually try and
run it.

If the sources were integrated into the tree we might have more people
using them. Perhaps. 
-- 
Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/

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