X.Org refers to several things related to the
X Window SystemThe X Window System is a computer software system and network protocol that provides a graphical user interface for networked computers, and was initially developed as part of Project Athena...
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X.Org refers to several things related to the
X Window SystemThe X Window System is a computer software system and network protocol that provides a graphical user interface for networked computers, and was initially developed as part of Project Athena...
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- X.Org, the organisation in charge of X standards from 1999 (as part of The Open Group
The Open Group is an industry consortium to set vendor- and technology-neutral open standards for computing infrastructure. It was formed when X/Open merged with the Open Software Foundation in 1996...
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- The X.Org Foundation
The X.Org Foundation is the organization holding the stewardship for the development of the X Window System. It was founded on 22 January 2004....
, a community-based foundation which took over X stewardship in 2004
- The X.Org Server
The X.Org Server is the X server in the official reference implementation of the X Window System. The current stable release is 1.7, which is part of X11R7.5, and was released on 2 October 2009...
, the reference implementation of X developed by the Foundation.