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Encyclopedia: XFree86

For most of the 1990s and early 2000s, the project was the source of most innovation in X and was the de facto steward of X development. Until early 2004, it was almost universal on Linux and the BSDs.

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David Dawes

David Dawes is one of the founders of the XFree86 project...

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Cygwin/X

setup system. Cygwin/X originally used XFree86, but now uses the XOrg Server, owing to concerns over XFree86's new license not being compatible with the GPL, which Cygwin is licensed under...

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Modeline

A Modeline is a configuration line in the XFree86 configuration file that provides information to the X server about a connected computer monitor. Modelines have become obsolete in XFree86 versions 4.0.1 and higher, as they are now calculated by the X server at startup based on two factors: other...

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Keith Packard

Keith Packard is a computer programmer, best known for his work on the X Window System. He worked for many years on XFree86, was kicked out of that project after disagreements and is now project lead on the experimental freedesktop.org Xserver and on the official X.org reference implementation of...

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Gedit

gedit is an open-source, small UTF-8 compatible text editor for the GNOME desktop environment. Designed for the X Window System (XFree86), it uses the GTK+ 2.0 and GNOME 2.0 libraries. Complete GNOME integration is featured, with support for Drag and Drop (DnD) between Nautilus (the GNOME file...

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LainOS

writing a variation on XFree86 that will use OpenGL for all primitive functions and a BlackBox-based...

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Apple X11

Apple X11 is Apple Computer's implementation of the X Window System for Mac OS X. Apple's X11 implementation is based on XFree86 and adds support for hardware accelerated 2D graphics, hardware OpenGL acceleration and integration with Aqua, the Mac OS X GUI. Apple X11 was initially available as a...

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BSDeviant

possible," and have the slogan "Unix; anytime, anywhere." BSDeviant Package Listing: XFree86 4.3.0...

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Accelerated-X

Accelerated-X server. The XFree86 project was intentionally created as a free alternative to the...

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Linux framebuffer

libraries such as SDL or GTK can use the framebuffer immediately, avoiding the overhead of the XFree86...

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