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The X.Org Server (officially the X.Org Foundation Open Source Public Implementation of X11) is the official reference implementation of the X Window System. The current release is X11R7.3, released on 6 September 2007. It is both open source and free software. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... In software engineering, software maintenance is the process of enhancing and optimizing deployed software (software release), as well as remedying defects. ... The X.Org swoosh logo. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... // An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... GNOME 2. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The MIT License, originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a license for the use of certain types of computer software. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... In computing, a reference implementation (or, infrequently, sample implementation) is a software example of a standard for use in helping others implement their own versions of the standard. ... GNOME 2. ... is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Clockwise from top: The logo of the GNU Project (the GNU head), the Linux kernel mascot Tux the Penguin, and the FreeBSD daemon Free software is a term coined by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation[1] to refer to software that can be used, studied, and modified without...

History

The modern X.Org Foundation came into being in 2004^{[citation needed]} when the body that oversaw X standards and published the official reference implementation joined forces with former XFree86 developers. GNOME 2. ... XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System . ...

X11R6.7.0, the first version of the X.Org Server, was forked from XFree86 4.4 RC2. The immediate reason for the fork was a disagreement with the new license for the final release version of XFree86 4.4, but several disagreements among the contributors surfaced prior to the split. Many of the previous XFree86 developers have joined the X.Org Server project. In software engineering, a project fork or branch happens when a developer (or a group of them) takes a copy of source code from one software package and starts to independently develop a new package. ... XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System . ...

The X11R6.9.0/X11R7.0.0 release primarily added a modular build system based on the GNU Autotools. 6.9.0 used the old imake build system whereas 7.0.0 uses autotools, both on the same codebase. The modular path (using GNU Autotools) is however the future direction of the X.Org server, and also saw the X11 binaries moving out of their own /usr/X11R6 subdirectory tree and into the global /usr tree on POSIX systems. The GNU build system, also called the GNU Autotools is a suite of tools produced by the GNU project that assist in making packages portable to many UNIX-like systems. ... imake is a C preprocessor interface to the make utility for Unix Systems. ... POSIX or Portable Operating System Interface[1] is the collective name of a family of related standards specified by the IEEE to define the application programming interface (API) for software compatible with variants of the Unix operating system. ...

Adoption

The X.Org Server is increasingly popular with the free software Unix-like operating systems, being adopted in most Linux distributions and BSD variants, with the exception of NetBSD (although X.org is available via pkgsrc). It is also included in Sun Microsystems' Solaris, although it is currently only supported on x86 systems; Sun's proprietary Xsun server is still also included, primarily for use with SPARC-based systems. It is also used in Cygwin/X, Cygwin's implementation of the X server for Microsoft Windows, and in Xming. Mac OS X versions prior to 10.5 ("Leopard") ship with an XFree86-based X window server, but 10.5 will be based on the X.org codebase.^[1] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 Ã— 500 pixelsFull resolution (1440 Ã— 900 pixel, file size: 227 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) DWM 4. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 Ã— 500 pixelsFull resolution (1440 Ã— 900 pixel, file size: 227 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) DWM 4. ... dwm is a dynamic window manager for X11. ... Diagram of the relationships between several Unix-like systems A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. ... A Linux distribution, often simply distribution or distro, is a member of the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems comprising the Linux kernel, the non-kernel parts of the GNU operating system, and assorted other software. ... Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD, sometimes called Berkeley Unix) is the Unix derivative distributed by the University of California, Berkeley, starting in the 1970s. ... NetBSD is a freely redistributable, open source version of the Unix-like BSD computer operating system. ... pkgsrc (package source) is a package management system for Unix-like operating systems. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... Solaris is a computer operating system developed by Sun Microsystems. ... The Solaris operating system developed by Sun Microsystems uses proprietary version of X Window System called Xsun. ... Cygwin/X running rootless on Microsoft Windows XP. The screen shows X applications (xeyes, xclock, xterm) sharing the screen with native Windows applications (Date and Time, Calculator). ... Cygwin (pronounced ) is a collection of free software tools originally developed by Cygnus Solutions to allow various versions of Microsoft Windows to act similar to a Unix system. ... Xming is a port of the X Window System to Microsoft Windows. ... Mac OS X (IPA: ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ...

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Categories: All articles with unsourced statements | Articles with unsourced statements | Software stubs | X servers | Free windowing systems | Freedesktop.org | Software forks Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... GNOME 2. ... The X Window System logo In computing, the X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a network-transparent windowing system for bitmap displays. ... The X Window System logo The X Window System core protocol[1][2][3] is the base protocol of the X Window System, which is a networked windowing system for bitmap displays used to build graphical user interfaces on Unix, Unix-like, and other operating systems. ... Xlib is an X Window System protocol client library in the C programming language. ... Selections, cut buffers, and drag-and-drop are the mechanisms used in the X Window System to allow a user to tranfer data from a window to another. ... An X window manager is software that controls the placement and appearance of windows under the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems. ... In the X Window System, an X session manager is a session management program, a program that can save and restore the current state of a set of running applications. ... In the X Window System, an X display manager runs as a program, allowing starting a session on an X server from the same or another computer. ... Development software for building X Window applications. ... In the X Window System, programs connect to the X server, possibly via a computer network. ... Intrinsics (also known as Xt, for X toolkit) is a library used in the X Window System. ... In computing, on the X Window System, X11 color names are represented in a simple text file, which maps certain strings to RGB color values. ... An X window manager is software that controls the placement and appearance of windows under the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems. ... In the X Window System, a compositing window manager is a unified X window manager and compositing manager program. ... In the X Window System, every window has a parent window. ... A tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the traditional approach of coordinate-based stacking of objects (windows) that tries to emulate the desk paradigm. ... X Image Extension, or XIE are extensions to X Window system that enhance its graphics capability. ... In the X Window System, the X keyboard extension or XKB extends the ability to control the keyboard over what is offered by the X Window core protocol. ... The X video extension, often abbreviated as XVideo or Xv, is a video output mechanism for the X Window System. ... The round oclock window. ... The MIT Shared Memory Extension or MIT-SHM is a X Window System extension for exchange of image data between client and server using shared memory. ... GLX (initialism for OpenGL Extension to the X Window System) provides the glue connecting OpenGL and the X Window System: it enables programs wishing to use OpenGL to do so within a window provided by the X Window System. ... Xrender (aka X Rendering Extension) introduces digital image composition as the foundation of a new rendering model within the X Window System. ... X11. ... In computing, X-Win32 is a proprietary X Window System server for Microsoft Windows, produced by StarNet Communications. ... XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System . ... XDarwin is an X11 server which runs on Mac OS X and Darwin. ... Xming is a port of the X Window System to Microsoft Windows. ... The Solaris operating system developed by Sun Microsystems uses proprietary version of X Window System called Xsun. ... In computing, the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (almost universally referred to by its initials, ICCCM) is a standard for X Window System clients to interoperate on a single server. ... xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... freedesktop. ... D-Bus is a free software project which offers a simple way for applications to communicate with one another. ... HAL is a Hardware Abstraction Layer and Open-source software Project that allows desktop applications on an operating system to readily access hardware information so that they can locate and use such hardware regardless of bus or device type. ... Fontconfig (the name is spelled in both capitalized and uncapitalized form) is a library designed to provide system-wide font configuration, customization, and application access. ... Xft is a Free library written by Keith Packard. ... cairo is a free software graphics library with multiple backends that provides a vector based device-independent API for software developers. ... In computing, the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) is an interface used in the X Window System to securely allow user applications to access the video hardware without requiring data to be passed (slowly) through the X Server. ... Mesa 3D is an open source graphics library that provides a generic OpenGL implementation for rendering 3-Dimensional graphics on multiple platforms. ... In computing, XCB (X C Binding) is a C language binding for the X Window System. ... A screenshot of renouveau in action (renouveau is the blue window in the top left corner) In computing, nouveau is an X.Org Foundation and Freedesktop. ... Look up glitz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Telepathy is a software framework which can be used to make software for interpersonal communications such as instant messaging, Voice over IP or videoconferencing. ... The GTK-Qt Theme Engine is a project allowing GTK to use Qt widget styles. ... Galago is a desktop presence information framework, designed to transmit presence information between programs. ... GStreamer is a multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject. ... GeoClue is a software framework which can be used to enable geospatial awareness in applications. ... The Portland Project is an initiative taken to establish a greater Linux foothold in the desktop market. ... Avahi is a system for multicast DNS service discovery. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Compiz fusion. ...

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