Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:26:30 +0200
From: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The naming wars continue...
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Salut,

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 06:37:08AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> There also were a W, and and X1, X2, ... X11.

I know.  I didn't say there wasn't.  They were all standards  of the X
protocol, however.

(Note, however, that there is  a tiny difference in the command layout
between the MIT X protocol specifiaction version 11 and the reality.)

> However, there is a tendency for numbers to get stuck (witness Linux
> 2.x).  In particular, X11R6 got encoded in many places including
> pathnames for no good reason.

Well, I'm driving my X11 from  /opt/xorg and I don't have any problems
yet. Just  that the NVidia  driver doesn't get  it right, but  I threw
away my NVidia card in favor of a dual-core Voodoo 5 anyway.

			    Tonnerre

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