Change from XFree86 to X.org?

[dylunio]

Erm...(correct me if I'm wrong) but both XF86 and Xorg are X11 (I have both undor /etc/X11 on a distro that uses Xorg and a distro that uses XF86). You should be able to use apt-get to get the latest xserver that debian offer...

I thought they were the same too, but xf86 is older, harder to configure, and has less newer documentation.

I know that they are diferent, but dispite this both are X11 (right?).

[techieMoe]

I know that they are diferent, but dispite this both are X11 (right?).

They're different project, but they're both implementations of the X Window System Version 11 (X11) codebase. The difference (besides their license) is that X.org uses the latest release (6.8.2) whereas XFree86 uses a previous release (6.8.0?).

Quoted from their respective sites:

http://www.x.org/X11.html
http://www.xfree86.org/

[TruthSeeker]

Right, they're both X11; I was confused before. I've now added a gigabyte of RAM to my machine and the tuxracer problem is gone (no, that's not why I bought the RAM ). It doesn't seem to use that much memory though, so maybe it's just coincidence. Anyway, it sure is nice to have graphics acceleration. Thanks for the help!