X windowing system - Revision history

Phoenix at 19:26, 24 November 2005

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Dave at 15:16, 15 March 2005

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Dave at 02:20, 17 December 2004

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X -- you may see it refered to as X11 or the X windowing system -- is what most unixes use for their graphical user interface (GUI). It works on a client-server model, meaning that you have an X server on your system, and also a client that connects to it. It can be (and usually ''is'') a real pain to setup if you haven't done it before and don't know the specifics of the system that you're configuring it on. You can install it from ports (or as a package) after you've installed your main system or right at the install stage. As a general rule, it's not installed on servers. The main reasons for this being that a) it's a network-aware app and as such can be a security risk and b) most servers don't need it, and it'll just go unused and take up disk space that can be used for other programs or data. If you're interested in controlling a server via a GUI, check out the [[webmin]] package in ports.

That said, FreeBSD's use as a desktop OS is certainly made much friendlier by the use of the X windowing system. X windows does not give you a pretty GUI all by itself, rather it gives you the ability to run another desktop application (see [[gnome]], [[kde]], [[xfce]], [[blackbox]] and [[windowmaker]] for examples of these).

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 X -- you may see it refered to as [[X11]], [[X11R6]], or the X windowing system -- is what most unixes use for their graphical user interface (GUI). It works on a client-server model, meaning that you have an X server on your system, and also a client that connects to it. It can be (and usually ''is'') a real pain to setup if you haven't done it before and don't know the specifics of the system that you're configuring it on. You can install it from ports (or as a package) after you've installed your main system or right at the install stage. As a general rule, it's not installed on servers. The main reasons for this being that a) it's a network-aware app and as such can be a security risk and b) most servers don't need it, and it'll just go unused and take up disk space that can be used for other programs or data. If you're interested in controlling a server via a GUI, check out the [[webmin]] package in ports.
-The X11 software has been deprecated due to lack of updates and licensing issues and has been replaced with the nearly identical (in use) X.org. See http://www.x.org/ and http://freedesktop.org for more information
+The X11 software has been forked and is now developed by two independent groups:  The XFree86 Project, and the Xorg Project.  See http://www.xfree86.org, http://www.x.org, and http://www.freedesktop.org for more information
 That said, FreeBSD's use as a desktop OS is certainly made much friendlier by the use of the X windowing system. X window does not give you a pretty GUI all by itself, rather it gives you the ability to run other window managers and desktops (see [[gnome]], [[KDE]], [[xfce]], [[blackbox]] and [[windowmaker]] for examples of these).

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 The X11 software has been deprecated due to lack of updates and licensing issues and has been replaced with the nearly identical (in use) X.org. See http://www.x.org/ and http://freedesktop.org for more information
-That said, FreeBSD's use as a desktop OS is certainly made much friendlier by the use of the X windowing system. X windows does not give you a pretty GUI all by itself, rather it gives you the ability to run other window managers and desktops (see [[gnome]], [[KDE]], [[xfce]], [[blackbox]] and [[windowmaker]] for examples of these).
+That said, FreeBSD's use as a desktop OS is certainly made much friendlier by the use of the X windowing system. X window does not give you a pretty GUI all by itself, rather it gives you the ability to run other window managers and desktops (see [[gnome]], [[KDE]], [[xfce]], [[blackbox]] and [[windowmaker]] for examples of these).
 See also: [[Configuring_X]]

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 The X11 software has been deprecated due to lack of updates and licensing issues and has been replaced with the nearly identical (in use) X.org. See http://www.x.org/ and http://freedesktop.org for more information
-That said, FreeBSD's use as a desktop OS is certainly made much friendlier by the use of the X windowing system. X windows does not give you a pretty GUI all by itself, rather it gives you the ability to run other window managers and desktops (see [[gnome]], [[kde]], [[xfce]], [[blackbox]] and [[windowmaker]] for examples of these).
+That said, FreeBSD's use as a desktop OS is certainly made much friendlier by the use of the X windowing system. X windows does not give you a pretty GUI all by itself, rather it gives you the ability to run other window managers and desktops (see [[gnome]], [[KDE]], [[xfce]], [[blackbox]] and [[windowmaker]] for examples of these).
 See also: [[Configuring_X]]

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−	X -- you may see it refered to as X11 or the X windowing system -- is what most unixes use for their graphical user interface (GUI). It works on a client-server model, meaning that you have an X server on your system, and also a client that connects to it. It can be (and usually ''is'') a real pain to setup if you haven't done it before and don't know the specifics of the system that you're configuring it on. You can install it from ports (or as a package) after you've installed your main system or right at the install stage. As a general rule, it's not installed on servers. The main reasons for this being that a) it's a network-aware app and as such can be a security risk and b) most servers don't need it, and it'll just go unused and take up disk space that can be used for other programs or data. If you're interested in controlling a server via a GUI, check out the [[webmin]] package in ports.	+	X -- you may see it refered to as [[X11]], [[X11R6]], or the X windowing system -- is what most unixes use for their graphical user interface (GUI). It works on a client-server model, meaning that you have an X server on your system, and also a client that connects to it. It can be (and usually ''is'') a real pain to setup if you haven't done it before and don't know the specifics of the system that you're configuring it on. You can install it from ports (or as a package) after you've installed your main system or right at the install stage. As a general rule, it's not installed on servers. The main reasons for this being that a) it's a network-aware app and as such can be a security risk and b) most servers don't need it, and it'll just go unused and take up disk space that can be used for other programs or data. If you're interested in controlling a server via a GUI, check out the [[webmin]] package in ports.

	The X11 software has been deprecated due to lack of updates and licensing issues and has been replaced with the nearly identical (in use) X.org. See http://www.x.org/ and http://freedesktop.org for more information		The X11 software has been deprecated due to lack of updates and licensing issues and has been replaced with the nearly identical (in use) X.org. See http://www.x.org/ and http://freedesktop.org for more information

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 X -- you may see it refered to as X11 or the X windowing system -- is what most unixes use for their graphical user interface (GUI). It works on a client-server model, meaning that you have an X server on your system, and also a client that connects to it. It can be (and usually ''is'') a real pain to setup if you haven't done it before and don't know the specifics of the system that you're configuring it on. You can install it from ports (or as a package) after you've installed your main system or right at the install stage. As a general rule, it's not installed on servers. The main reasons for this being that a) it's a network-aware app and as such can be a security risk and b) most servers don't need it, and it'll just go unused and take up disk space that can be used for other programs or data. If you're interested in controlling a server via a GUI, check out the [[webmin]] package in ports.
-That said, FreeBSD's use as a desktop OS is certainly made much friendlier by the use of the X windowing system. X windows does not give you a pretty GUI all by itself, rather it gives you the ability to run another desktop application (see [[gnome]], [[kde]], [[xfce]], [[blackbox]] and [[windowmaker]] for examples of these).
+The X11 software has been deprecated due to lack of updates and licensing issues and has been replaced with the nearly identical (in use) X.org. See http://www.x.org/ and http://freedesktop.org for more information
 [[Category: Ports and Packages]]
 [[Category:FreeBSD for Workstations]]

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	That said, FreeBSD's use as a desktop OS is certainly made much friendlier by the use of the X windowing system. X windows does not give you a pretty GUI all by itself, rather it gives you the ability to run another desktop application (see [[gnome]], [[kde]], [[xfce]], [[blackbox]] and [[windowmaker]] for examples of these).		That said, FreeBSD's use as a desktop OS is certainly made much friendlier by the use of the X windowing system. X windows does not give you a pretty GUI all by itself, rather it gives you the ability to run another desktop application (see [[gnome]], [[kde]], [[xfce]], [[blackbox]] and [[windowmaker]] for examples of these).

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