[PLUG] Xfree/ X11

Kyle Accardi sandbox at pacifier.com
Fri Mar 22 05:50:51 UTC 2002


Terry Griffin wrote:

> 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.

Linux Magazine ran a pretty good feature on the History of XFree86 back in 
December.  Online here http://www.linux-mag.com/2001-12/xfree86_01.html


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Kyle Accardi





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