File:X11.svg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
X Window System
Sign in to saveAlso known as X11, X Window, X Windows
vrije software en opensourcesoftware van X.Org Foundation
The X Window System is software that lets computers running UNIX-like systems display graphics on screens and communicate these graphics over a network. It matters because it standardized how different computers can share graphical displays and interact with each other across networks, which became foundational to how Unix systems handle visual computing.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, X Window System is referenced by 980 other articles, and connects out to X.Org Foundation, X.Org Server and Wayland.
It sits within the topics Massachusetts Institute of Technology software, Open Group standards and Remote desktop.
Its subject is documented across 52 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- windowing system
- Named after
- W Window System
- Follows
- W Window System
- Developer
- Keith Packard
- Platform
- cross-platform software
- Official website
- x.org
- Image
- X-Window-System.png
Show 10 more facts
- publication date
- 1984-00-00
- Commons category
- X Window System
- topic's main category
- Category:X Window System
- software version identifier
- X11R3
- copyright license
- MIT License
- Stack Exchange tag
- unix.stackexchange.com/tags/x11
- name in kana
- エックスウィンドウシステム
- inception
- 1982-00-00
- replaces
- W Window System
- source code repository URL
- gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · Nederlands
Het X Window System, kortweg X of ook X11 genoemd, is een platform om onder verschillende besturingssystemen, zoals Unix en VMS, een grafische bediening te kunnen gebruiken.
Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA