Re: xwindows, xdarwin, xfree86, and x11
Re: xwindows, xdarwin, xfree86, and x11
- Subject: Re: xwindows, xdarwin, xfree86, and x11
- From: Randy Ford <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 03:26:22 -0600
On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 02:42 AM, romeo montalvo wrote:
Area all xwindows, wdarwin, xfree86, and x11 the same
thing? if not, where do I download xdarwin and
xwindows? I am installing openoffice and found out
that I do not have 'xdarwin' which i thought was x11
and all the others in one (with different names).
They're pretty much the same things. If you have any X-server
installed on Mac OS X, you have what you need of those things. Most
users don't have any need to understand more than that. If you'd just
like to know more, you can keep reading. <grin>.
X11 is version 11 of the X-Windows specification. We're currently on
the sixth release of version 11, so you may see X11R6.
XFree86 is an open source implementation of X11. Originally, it only
supported PC hardware, with CPUs like 80386, 80486, and Pentium.
That's where the '86' at the end of XFree86 originates.
XDarwin is a project to get XFree86 running on Darwin (the open-source
base for Mac OS X.)
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