XOrgFoundation - X.Org Foundation information
Release 6.7 and later of X Version 11 is brought to you by the X.Org Foundation.
Miscellaneous Information Manual XORGFOUNDATION(7) NAME XOrgFoundation - X.Org Foundation information SYNOPSIS Release 6.7 and later of X Version 11 is brought to you by the X.Org Foundation. DESCRIPTION The X.Org Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) char- ity corporation. It was formed in 2004 as the successor to the X.Org Group at The Open Group. The purpose of the X.Org Foundation is to fos- ter the development, evolution, and maintenance of the X Window System, a comprehensive set of vendor-neutral, system-architecture neutral, network-transparent windowing and user interface standards. Membership in the X.Org Foundation is free and open to anyone. The X.Org Founda- tion hosts a public git repository of the source code on freedesk- top.org. The X Window System was created in the mid-1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1988, MIT formed a member-funded consor- tium to provide the technical and administrative leadership necessary to support further development of the X Window System. In 1992, MIT and the membership decided it was in their best interests to move the consortium out of MIT and create an independent, stand-alone organiza- tion. All rights to the X Window System were assigned by MIT to X Con- sortium, Inc. on January 1, 1994. On December 31, 1996 the X Consor- tium, Inc. closed its doors and all rights to the X Window System were assigned to The Open Group (then known as the Open Software Founda- tion). ADDRESSES The X.Org Foundation's web site is http://www.x.org/ The X.Org Foundation's public ftp site is ftp://ftp.x.org/ Information about the X.Org Foundation git repository is on the X.Org web site at http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/git ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+-----------------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability | x11/documentation/xorg-docs | +---------------+-----------------------------+ |Stability | Uncommitted | +---------------+-----------------------------+ NOTES Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from ['https://www.x.org/releases/individ- ual/doc/xorg-docs-1.7.1.tar.bz2', 'https://www.x.org/releases/individ- ual/doc/xorg-sgml-doctools-1.11.tar.bz2']. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://www.x.org. X Version 11 xorg-docs 1.7.1 XORGFOUNDATION(7)