Editing XFree86 (section)

== Usage ==

While XFree86 was widely used by most [[Unix-like]] computer [[operating systems]] before its license change with version 4.4.0, it has since then been superseded by X.org and is used rarely nowadays.<ref name=bsdcan08>{{cite journal |author= Constantine A. Murenin |date= May 2008 |url= https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/login/2008-08/openpdfs/bsdcan08.pdf |title= Conference Reports, BSDCan: The BSD Conference, X.Org |journal= [[;login:]] |publisher= [[USENIX]] |publication-date= August 2008 |volume= 33 |issue= 4 |page= 114 |issn= 1044-6397 }}</ref> The last remaining operating system distribution to use it was [[NetBSD]],{{r|bsdcan08}} which shipped some platforms with 4.5.0 by default until removing it as obsolete in 2015.<ref name="n/cvsweb">{{cite web |url= http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/xsrc/xfree/xc/ |title= xsrc/xfree/xc/ |publisher= [[NetBSD]] |date= 2015-07-23 |access-date= 2019-04-18 }}</ref><ref name="m/2015/07/23">{{cite mailing list |author= matthew green |date= 2015-07-23 |url= http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2015/07/23/msg067606.html |title= CVS commit: xsrc/xfree/xc |mailing-list= source-changes |publisher= [[NetBSD]] |quote= "remove obsolete XFree86 sources."}}</ref>  {{Section link|NetBSD#5.0}} and later releases use X.org by default on various ports (including i386 and amd64), and X.org is available through NetBSD [[pkgsrc]] for architectures for which XFree86 remains the default because of better support.<ref name="Announcing NetBSD 5.0">{{cite web|url=//www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-5/NetBSD-5.0.html|title=Announcing NetBSD 5.0}}</ref>

{{As of|2019|04|19}}, the <code>netbsd-7</code> branch and {{Section link|NetBSD#7.2}} release were the last to potentially contain XFree86,{{r|n/cvsweb}} and XFree86 was completely removed before <code>netbsd-8</code> branch and {{Section link|NetBSD#8.0}} release in 2018.<ref name=n70>{{cite web |url= //www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-8/NetBSD-8.0.html |title= Announcing NetBSD 8.0 (July 17, 2018) |publisher= [[NetBSD]] |quote= "XFree86 has been removed, as all architectures have switched to XOrg." }}</ref>{{r|n/cvsweb|m/2015/07/23}}