[Sunhelp] X Window System

[Wes Hofmann]

> Is this an x86 box?  If so, XFree86 is a good solution.  The
> Solaris SPARC
> and x86 X servers come from entirely different code bases,
> and the x86 one
> is considerably out of date with regards to modern PC video cards.
>
> If not, what seems to be the problem?  Recent Solaris/SPARC X
> servers are
> based on TOG X11R6 code and perform comparably or better.  Accelerated
> framebuffers have much better support in Sun's X server, you
> won't find
> the vanilla X11R6 server useful for much past a cg6.

Well I'm running this on Solaris 2.6 and I've beenn told that I would get a
noticeably smaller memory footprint and improved performance if I got rid of
OpenWindows and installed a different X Server.  Is this incorrect?

Wes


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