Re: new faq and index

[Bob McGowan <rmcgowan at veritas dot com>]

I see, I guess I was overly specific in selection of the qualifying
terms.  This was a matter of grammer, not technical information, so any
other wording that accomplished the same task would be fine.  So I just
took a moment to look at the current FAQ at
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/faq.html and its structure and
wording deals with the issue I had very nicely.

Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> 
> Bob,
> Robert is correct.  X3386 was the first X-server written while
> XF86 gang was MIT. That time Linux did not existed.
> Below is the cut and paste of a statment from XFree86 Inc.
> 
> "The XFree86 Project, Inc is a non-profit organisation which produces
> XFree86, a freely redistributable open-source implementation of the X Window
> System that runs on UNIX(R) and UNIX-like (like Linux, the BSDs and Solaris
> x86 series) operating systems and OS/2.
> 
> XFree86 is the underlying software that is between the hardware and
> graphical user interface (aka gui) that people see and use. If you are using
> KDE, GNOME, Enlightenment, twm or fvwm then you are already using and
> running XFree86 as these run as our clients.
> 
> Traditionally, The XFree86 Project has focused on Intel x86-based platforms,
> which is where the `86' in our name comes from, but our current release
> supports other platforms like the Alpha, PowerPC, Sparc and in-the-works
> MIPS CPU families.
> 
> Our goal at XFree86 is to have X run on every platform available, including
> those we do not currently support, as the best windowing system available on
> that platform."
> 
> XFree86 Inc. goal now is to cover as many as possible Operating systems, not
> only x86-based OS or Linux.
> Linux itself no more only x86-based OS.
> 
> The Cygwin/XFree port was done more or less along the line of OS/2 port.
> For OS/2 port Holger's patches were
> merged into XFree86 source base, but the supporting drivers source code and
> binaries are available
> only from Holger's Web Pages.  Cygwin/XFree (Windows) is simillar, you need
> supporting drivers
> whose binaries and source codes will be available from
> http://source.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree.
> 
> Suhaib
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 6:59 AM
> > To: Bob McGowan; Suhaib M. Siddiqi
> > Cc: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: new faq and index
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion Bob, but I disagree:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bob McGowan" <rmcgowan@veritas.com>
> > To: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
> > Cc: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>;
> > <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 12:14 PM
> > Subject: Re: new faq and index
> >
> >
> > > May I suggest further changing the last line so the references to
> > > "x86-based systems" differentiates the two:
> > >
> > >     ....Window System to x86-based Linux systems. Cygwin-XFree is a port
> > > of XFree86
> > >                                    ^^^^^
> >
> > Xfree86 is not Linux specific - in fact it wasn't developed with linux in
> > mind. (It was very handy for Linux to incorporate when Linux was developed
> > however.) Xfree86 is actually the 80x86 platform port of the X windows
> > system... It just happens to be nearly exclusively Unix like
> > platforms that
> > had it (until now!)
> >
> > >   version 4 for x86-based Windows NT systems using Redhat's Cygwin
> > > Development Tools.
> > >                           ^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > It works on windows ME, and should anyone get time to code around M$'s
> > deficient GDI32.dll & kernel32.dll windows 95 and 98 should work as well.
> >
> > I ahve changed the wording a bit to get the spirit of your changes across.
> >
> > > "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On FAQ
> > > >
> > > > 1
> > > >  What is X11, X11R6.x, and Cygwin-XFree?
> > > >
> > > >  X11, more precisely called "The X Window System" is a complete window
> > > > system that usually runs as the de-facto standard in Unix
> > environments.
> > > > X11R6.3 is the name of the current release (precisely, the most recent
> > one
> > > > is X11R6.4, but this is not part of the 3.X server line. XFree86 is a
> > port
> > > > of the X Window System to x86-based systems. Cygwin-XFree is a port of
> > > > XFree86 version 4 for x86-based systems using Redhat's Cygwin
> > Development
> > > > Tools.
> > > >
> > > > Should change to
> > > >
> > > > 1
> > > >  What is X11, X11R6.x, and Cygwin-XFree?
> > > >
> > > >  X11, more precisely called "The X Window System" is a complete window
> > > > system that usually runs as the de-facto standard in Unix
> > environments.
> > > > X11R6.4 is the name of the current release (precisely, the
> > > >                                                     ^^^^^^^^^
> > > >  most recent one is X11R6.5.1, but this is not part of the 3.X server
> > line.
> > > > XFree86 is a port of the X
> > > >                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > >  Window System to x86-based systems. Cygwin-XFree is a port of XFree86
> > > > version 4 for x86-based systems using Redhat's Cygwin
> > Development Tools.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bob McGowan
> > > Staff Software Quality Engineer
> > > VERITAS Software
> > > rmcgowan@veritas.com
> > >

-- 
Bob McGowan
Staff Software Quality Engineer
VERITAS Software
rmcgowan@veritas.com