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I see /usr/X11R6 and it brings back memories of when Linux distros separated X in such a manner. Then I realized that r6 is kinda old.
by rascul 4y ago
I see /usr/X11R6 and it brings back memories of when Linux distros separated X in such a manner. Then I realized that r6 is kinda old.
- chasil 4y agoOpenBSD does not run the X server as root, so it does have a security benefit over more modern systems. USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND _x11 71289 0.0 0.6 11164 24992 ?? S 9:06AM 0:00.41 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt05 ... root 2878 0.0 0.0 2696 1412 ?? IpU 9:06AM 0:00.04 X: [priv] (Xorg) I understand that their malloc conversion from sbrk to mmap flushed out some long-standing X bugs as well. http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20050824190317&pid=3 http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2005082419031...
- mhd 4y agoDo you remember what distro used to do this?
- rascul 4y agoAll of them that I can remember. Note that this is from the '90s. At some point they all merged the X stuff into /usr. Maybe it was with the x.org switch, as XFree86 does indeed mention /usr/X11R6 in the docs. https://xfree86.org/4.8.0/Install4.html#6 https://xfree86.org/4.8.0/Install4.html#6
- mhd 4y agoAh, you meant as a directory. Sure, I remember that, I just thought you meant as a partition.
- brynet 4y agoOpenBSD's X distribution (xenocara) is based on X11R7.7 + updated components, it's just a historical naming convention. Other systems have merged X into /usr or /usr/local, OpenBSD kept the install prefix. https://man.openbsd.org/hier https://man.openbsd.org/hier