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Old 17th May 2008
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Hello,

Unless you are doing 3D development or playing 3D games or the like, I don't see the _need_ to switch to X.org. For most of us who use the internet, email, maybe an IDE and a whole lot of xterms - there is no advantage to switching and indeed a lot of extra work is required to switch.

For one, it takes a while to build. It took over 21 hours to compile the X.org server through pkgsrc. Then there are a number tweaks to make to be sure that X.org will work properly - not overly difficult, but time consuming. I think I'll stick with XFree86 while it is still the default. When NetBSD switches to X.org in the base distribution, then I'll use X.org.
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