XORGFOUNDATION(7)

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🌸 XORGFOUNDATION — X.Org Foundation info, bestie edition 🌸

okay so this is the tea page: everything you ever wanted to know about the X.Org Foundation, and it's literally the manual page XOrgFoundation from section 7 of the Miscellaneous Information Manual. it's giving "lore drop" and honestly? obsessed. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Release 6.7 and later of X Version 11 is brought to you by the X.Org Foundation.

that's it. that's the synopsis. short, sweet, iconic. 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so. the X.Org Foundation is a member project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI), which is an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charity corporation. no cap, an actual charity. it was formed in 2004 as the successor to the X.Org Group at The Open Group. glow-up behavior. ✨

and what's the purpose of this whole foundation, you ask? bestie, it's to foster the development, evolution, and maintenance of the X Window System — which is a comprehensive set of vendor-neutral, system-architecture neutral, network-transparent windowing and user interface standards. three hyphenated adjectives in a row?? that's main character energy fr fr. 🌈

membership in the X.Org Foundation is free and open to anyone. yes, anyone. you. me. your cat. (okay maybe not your cat, but you get it. 🐱) also they host public git repositories of the source code over on freedesktop.org, which is super slay of them. 🫶

🦋 a lil history lesson (it's juicy, trust) 🦋

The X Window System was created in the mid-1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT! the origin story!! 😭

then in 1988, MIT formed a member-funded consortium to provide the technical and administrative leadership necessary to support further development of the X Window System. leadership vibes. 👑

then 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 organization. they said "we're moving out" and honestly? valid. 💅

all rights to the X Window System were assigned by MIT to X Consortium, Inc. on January 1, 1994. mark your calendars, that's a canon event.

then on December 31, 1996 the X Consortium, Inc. closed its doors and all rights to the X Window System were assigned to The Open Group (then known as the Open Software Foundation). closing one door and opening another. we love a plot twist. 🚪✨

🎀 ADDRESSES 🎀

🌸 ADDRESSES (yes, again — there are two of them, periodt) 🌸

  • SPI's web site is https://spi-inc.org/
  • The X.Org Foundation's public ftp site is ftp://ftp.x.org/
  • The X.Org Foundation's public source repositories are at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg — that's where the code lives, go look at it, it's giving open source excellence 🧚
lowkey important: this page lists two separate ADDRESSES sections, and both are here in order. no skipping, no merging, that's the rule. 💜

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie. you now know more about the X.Org Foundation than 99% of people at your school. wear it with pride. 👑

this absolute banger of a manual page comes to you from X Version 11, shipped in the xorg-docs 1.7.3 era, filed under XORGFOUNDATION(7) in the Miscellaneous Information Manual. mwah. 💋

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