X.Org Server
The
X.Org Server (officially the
X.Org Foundation Open Source Public Implementation of X11) is the X server in the official
reference implementation of the
X Window System. The current stable release is 1.4.2, released as part of X11R7.3 on
11 June 2008. It is both
open source and
free software.The project is supported and overseen by the
X.Org Foundation and is hosted by
freedesktop.org.
History
The modern X.Org Foundation came into being in 2004 when the body that oversaw X standards and published the official reference implementation joined forces with former
XFree86 developers.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.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.
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, and is the server of choice for x86 systems; SPARC-based systems almost exclusively use Sun's proprietary
Xsun server, as SPARC graphics driver support for X.org is very limited. 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's X server is based on the X.org codebase.
(1) References
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[Re: Xorg in Leopard?]
See also
External links
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