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

Richard A Johnson raj at pollux.geog.ucsb.edu
Fri Jun 7 09:45:02 AEST 1991


I've heard rumors that X11R4 will be in AIX 3.2 and this may be out by around
september or so.  If it's true that X11R5 will be released in July, then in
september IBM will go from being 2 versions behind to being their usual 1!  :-)

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
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!

Just log me as yet another opinionated customer.



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