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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.
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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
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- 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
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