XFree86 3.1.1 is a port of X11R6 that supports several versions of Intel-based Unix. It is derived from X386 1.2, which was the X server distributed with X11R5. This release consists of many new features and performance improvements as well as many bug fixes. The release is available as source patches against the X Consortium X11R6 code, as well as binary distributions for many architectures.
The sources for XFree86 are available by anonymous ftp from:
ftp.XFree86.org:/pub/XFree86/current
Binaries for BSD/386 1.1 will be available from:
ftp.XFree86.org:/pub/XFree86/current/binaries/Bsdi
If you're running BSD 1.0, you'll have to build it from source. Building the distribution on BSD/386 1.0 is untested, but believed to work correctly. If you run into trouble building on BSD/386 1.0, please let us know so that we can correct any incompatibilities. If you've done it and want to share your binaries, please let the Bsdi mailing list know. The binaries are compiled using gcc 2.5.8. There may be problems using XFree86 3.1 on a 386/486 without a math coprocessor. If you experience these kind of problems, you may have better luck building from the source using gcc 1.42 instead.
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