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X - a portable, network-transparent window system

The X Window System is a network transparent window system which runs on a wide range of computing and graphics machines. It should be relatively straightforward to build the X Consortium software distribution on most ANSI C and POSIX compliant systems. Commercial implementations are also available for a wide range of platforms.

XFree86 is a freely redistributable open source implementation of the X Window System.

• http://www.xfree86.org/

Another implementation is XOrg:

• http://www.x.org/

• http://www.x.org/XOrg_background.html

Related: Y, GNU/Linux

	This is the JargonFile (V4.00) entry for X - Next: XEROX PARC, Prev: WYSIWYG
:X: /X/ /n./ 1. Used in various speech and writing contexts (also in lowercase) in roughly its algebraic sense of unknown within a set defined by context (compare N). Thus, the abbreviation 680x0 stands for 68000, 68010, 68020, 68030, or 68040, and 80x86 stands for 80186, 80286 80386 or 80486 (note that a Unix hacker might write these as 680[0-4]0 and 80[1-4]86 or 680?0 and 80?86 respectively; see glob). 2. [after the name of an earlier window system called W] An over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered and incredibly over-complicated window system developed at MIT and widely used on Unix systems.
* (text is auto-included via JargonExtension by mutante using jargon with VERSION 4.0.0, 24 JUL 1996 - JargonFile by Eric S. Raymond is in the public domain)