[PLUG] Xfree/ X11

Terry Griffin griffint at pobox.com
Fri Mar 22 05:29:20 UTC 2002


On Thursday 21 March 2002 09:15 pm, Carla Schroder wrote:
> Okay, who can enlighten a poor confused old lady? Are XFree and X11 two
> different things? Do you need both? Why are there two?
>
> thankee kindly for putting me out of my misery.

X11 is a standard network protocol for transmitting graphical information 
from an X client to an X server and user input from keyboards and mice back 
the other direction. An X server consists of a display, keyboard, and mouse. 
An X client is some application program like xterm or Mozilla.

XFree86 is a particular implementation of X11.

Terry




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