Editing XFree86 (section)

== Forks of XFree86 ==

=== Xwin ===

Shortly after he was expelled from the XFree86 Core Team, Keith Packard started setting up xwin.org.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20031012063438/http://xwin.org/index.php?page=5 (Archived) XWin front page], By Keith Packard and others, 11 Apr 2003</ref> While this was claimed to be the fork of XFree86,<ref>[http://developers.slashdot.org/story/03/04/13/0253224/Keith-Packards-Xfree86-Fork-Officially-Started Keith Packard's Xfree86 Fork Officially Started], [[Slashdot]], 11 Apr 2003</ref>  Keith Packard later refined this to "a forum for community participation in X".<ref>xwin.org goals by Keith Packard, 12 Apr 2003.{{cite web|url=http://xwin.org/article.php?story=2003041221350542 |title=Xwin.org - xwin.org goals |access-date=September 13, 2012 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031206063052/http://xwin.org/article.php?story=2003041221350542 |archive-date=December 6, 2003 }}</ref> XWin saw a lot of activity in the first two months after the announcements, but most of the activity was happening behind the scenes, and Keith moved his own development to freedesktop.org.<ref>[http://www.osnews.com/comments/5105 Screenshots from freedesktop.org's New X Server] Osnews, 11 Nov 2003</ref>

=== Xouvert ===

Xouvert was later also hailed as the first XFree86 fork in August 2003.<ref>[http://developers.slashdot.org/story/03/08/17/160254/XFree86-Fork-Gets-a-Name-Website: XFree86 Fork Gets a Name, Website] by Piethein Strengholt, 17 Aug 2003</ref> Even though releases were announced for October 2003 and April 2004,<ref>[https://lwn.net/Articles/45434/ The Xouvert Project] by Jonathan Corbet, 20 Aug 2003</ref> no releases were made.  The last status change was made in March 2004 and it was communicated that there were delays in setting up a revision control system.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040328002044/http://www.xouvert.org/ (archived) Xouvert front page], Mar 28, 2004.</ref>

=== X.Org ===

{{Main|X.Org Server}}

The '''X.Org Server''' became the official [[reference implementation (computing)|reference implementation]] of X11. The first version, X11R6.7.0, was [[Fork (software)|fork]]ed from XFree86 version 4.4 RC2 to avoid the XFree86 license changes, with X11R6.6 changes merged in. Version X11R6.8 added many new extensions, drivers and fixes. It is hosted by and works closely with corporate-sponsored [[freedesktop.org]].

Most of the open-source Unix-like operating systems have adopted the X.Org Server in place of XFree86, and most of the XFree86 developers have moved to X.Org.