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  <H2><A NAME="2"></A>2. What and Where is XFree86?</H2>
<p>XFree86 is a port of X11R6.3 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.</p>
<p>XFree86/OS2 is the name of the implementation of XFree86
on OS/2 based systems.</p>
<p>See the <A href="COPYRIGHT.html">Copyright Notice</A>.</p>

<p>Binaries for OS/2 Warp and Merlin are available from:
<A href="ftp://ftp.XFree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.5/OS2">ftp.XFree86.org:/pub/XFree86/3.3.5/OS2</A></p>
<p>The WWW page
<A href="http://borneo.gmd.de/~veit/os2/xf86os2.html">http://borneo.gmd.de/~veit/os2/xf86os2.html</A> will
usually show more references to FTP or WWW sites to retrieve
sources or binaries.</p>

<p>Other versions:</p>
<p>XFree86/OS2 will run on all dialects of Warp 3, including Warp "red spine box",
Warp "blue spine box", Warp Connect, Warp Server, and Warp 4.</p>
<p>For Warp 3 installing fixpack level 17 or later is strongly recommended.
There have been a few reports that the installation of FP26 causes XFree86 
no longer to work, but I am not sure about a real reason. Current fixpacks 
for Warp 3, like FP36, seem to work well also.</p>
<p>Warp 4 may be used with or without the recent public fixpack.</p>
<p>Please check in all cases a LATEST.OS2 file.</p>
<p>OS/2 2.11 is not supported any longer with this release, due to lack
of a working test environment. Consequently, OS/2 SMP 2.11 is not supported 
either. Warp Server SMP is supported, but SMP does not give significant
advantage, other than the general speedup because of multiple processors 
working. OS/2 versions 1.X are definitely not supported and will never be.</p>
<p>It is possible to build XFree86/OS2 from the sources.  Read about this
in the document OS2.NOTES.</p>

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