What and Where is XFree86?

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## 1. What and Where is XFree86?

XFree86 3.3.1 is a port of X11R6.3 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 X11R6.3 code, as well as binary distributions for many architectures.

See the Copyright Notice.

The sources for XFree86 are available by anonymous ftp from:

ftp://ftp.XFree86.org/pub/XFree86/current

Binaries for NetBSD 1.2 and later are available from:

ftp://ftp.XFree86.org/pub/XFree86/current/binaries/

A list of mirror sites is provided by ftp://ftp.XFree86.org/pub/XFree86/MIRRORS

Other NetBSD versions:

These binaries are not compatible with earlier NetBSD versions. If you're still running NetBSD 0.9, 1.0 or 1.1, you should think about upgrading to a newer version of NetBSD first.

If you don't upgrade, you'll have to build XFree86 from the sources. XFree86 3.3.1 should compile cleanly under earlier versions of NetBSD, although this has not been tested.

XFree86 3.3.1 also builds on NetBSD/sparc. See section Building on sparc for details.

The client side of XFree86 also builds on NetBSD/alpha.

XFree86 3.3.1 also supports NetBSD on PC98 machines.

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