More About X
X is an accepted standard for a UNIX windowing system. Several distributions of X are available. The one included with FreeBSD is called XFree86, which is a freely available version of X intended for x86 (Intel and compatible) computers. The XFree86 project is developed by volunteers, and the programming source code for the system is available to those who want it. XFree86 runs on most UNIX operating systems including FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, AIX, and so on. In addition, it runs on some non-UNIX systems such as OS/2. Some work has been done on a Microsoft Windows port of XFree86.
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