[699] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Suggestion for a future release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Aug 7 09:45:31 1996
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:45:18 -0400
To: "Bruce R. Lewis" <brlewis@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Reid M. Pinchback <reidmp@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[698] in Release_7.7_team"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> By the way, a Netscape FAQ says:
> By default, Linux and XFree86 come with the Backspace and Delete keys
> misconfigured. All Motif programs (including, of course, Netscape
> Navigator) will malfunction in the same way.
This is misleading. It should say "XFree86 under Linux comes with...";
in particular it's applicable to other XFree86 platforms (eg: NetBSD).
I believe this behavior has been reverted as of a recent XFree86
release and/or Beta.
--jhawk
(who does wonder what the story is since XFree86 is just a parallel
release to that of the X Consortium release, and both track each other
pretty much identically, just that XFree focusses on x86 stuff and has
more public releases. You can compile XFree86 for Solaris, for instance,
and it is just like X11R6.1, except a slightly more recent branch.)
Talk about digressions...
