When will X11R4 come to the RS6000 (was: How to make win mgr appear)

[Chin Fang]

In article <11908 at hub.ucsb.edu>, raj at pollux.geog.ucsb.edu (Richard A Johnson) writes:
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|> By the way, I hear also that part of the delay in getting X11R4 out is getting
|> all of the IBM modifications into it.  Now, I can understand that supporting
|> 3D hardware, IBM's graPHIGS library, their GL library, etc. would take a while
|> to do, but can we just maybe get a distribution of the basic X11R? stuff as
|> soon as THAT's working and then get an update of the rest later?  I would bet
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Excellent idea!

|> that a LOT of people don't use the 3D stuff and simply want the standard MIT
|> X11R4 (and soon R5!) distribution running on their machine!
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|> Just log me as yet another opinionated customer.

Me too!  The plain MIT X is just fine as long as it R>3.  One more vote.

Chin Fang
Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University
fangchin at leland.stanford.edu