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rjsw
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On Abandoning the X Server
XFree86 was itself a fork.
_ofdw
on Oct 28, 2020
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What's the difference between X11 and xfree86 (and I guess Xorg)?
kstrauser
on Oct 28, 2020
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XFree86 was an implementation of the X11 protocol. X.org is a fork of the XFree86 project (short version: XF86 license changed, and a huge chunk of the core contributors saw that as the final reason to take their work elsewhere).
rjsw
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XFree86 was a fork of X11R5.
mcguire
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I thought it was R6.
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