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- Improved platform support. Support for most UNIX(R) and UNIX-like
operating systems on Intel/x86 platforms, plus support for Linux on Alpha,
PowerPC, IA-64, Sparc, and Mips platforms, and for Darwin on PowerPC.
- Single Xserver instead of multiple hardware specific Xservers
- Hardware specific modules can be loaded dynamically
- Other module specific features can be loaded as needed. Modules can
include X server extensions, font rasterisers, input device drivers
and framebuffer layers
- Improved configuration file readability
- Improved configuration tools
- The XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) has been completely rewritten
from scratch for XFree86 4.x.
- Multi-Head Support
- Xinerama - Basically, multiple monitors making one big screen.
- Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) / DGA
- XFree86 4.x comes with two TrueType backends
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