Re: xwindows, xdarwin, xfree86, and x11
Re: xwindows, xdarwin, xfree86, and x11
- Subject: Re: xwindows, xdarwin, xfree86, and x11
- From: magenta <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 01:46:43 -0800
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 03:26:22AM -0600, Randy Ford wrote:
> 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.
6.2, no? I think the X consortium is making the protocol version slowly
converge on some arbitrary number, like TeX (each new version brings it one
significant digit closer to π) only we don't know where it's converging
to. :)
Also, "X windows" is a casual term which the X consortium really hates for
mostly pedantic reasons. I believe the proper name is "The X Windowing
System."
> 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.
Sort of. XFree86 was originally a fork of X386. 'Free' is a pun on '3'.
Sort of how like Apache was originally a set of patches against NCSA httpd
(it was "a patchy" server).
> XDarwin is a project to get XFree86 running on Darwin (the open-source
> base for Mac OS X.)
As are Apple-X11 (aka X11.app), XonX, and a few other things.
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