[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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