XFree86® Home to the X Window System What is XFree86®? The XFree86 Project, Inc is a global volunteer organization which produces XFree86®, the freely redistributable open-source implementation of the X Window System continuously since 1992
XFree86 (1) manual page XFree86 is a full featured X server that was originally designed for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems running on Intel x86 hardware It now runs on a wider range of hardware and OS platforms
Downloading the XFree86 4. 8. 0 binaries We provide XFree86 4 8 0 binaries for a range of operating systems at our ftp site and our web site Often during releases our site is heavily loaded Instead of downloading directly from us we recommend that instead you use one of our mirror sites
XFree86 (1) manual page The current XFree86 release is based on X11R6 3 The XFree86 X server architecture was redesigned for the 4 0 release, and it includes among other things a loadable module system donated by Metro Link, Inc
Documentation for XFree86® version 4. 8. 0 README for XFree86® 4 8 0 on LynxOS [PDF] README for XFree86® 4 8 0 on NetBSD [PDF] README for XFree86® 4 8 0 on OpenBSD [PDF] Notes on Rebuilding XFree86® OS2 from Scratch [PDF] Information for SCO OpenServer Users [PDF] Information for Solaris [PDF] Distributed Multihead X design [PDF] Scaled Window Support in DMX [PDF]
Overview of XFree86 4. x. XFree86 4 2 0 has X server support for most UNIX (R) and UNIX-like operating systems on Intel x86 platforms, plus support for Linux on Alpha, PowerPC, IA-64, Sparc, and Mips platforms, and for Darwin on PowerPC
Resources for XFree86® It has all of the XFree86 release documentation, various contributor pages, and a list of the most popular windowing managers and desktops If that is not enough, we offer a search facility for combing through all of it in search of your particular query
Getting Help with XFree86® The following four (4) steps are the best way to solve your problems with your XFree86 installation
X server - XFree86 XFree86 4 0 has X server support for most UNIX (R) and UNIX-like operating systems on Intel x86 platforms, plus support for Linux on Alpha and PowerPC platforms Work on support for additional architectures and operating systems is in progress, and is planned for future releases
XF86Config (5) manual page - XFree86 XFree86 supports several mechanisms for supplying obtaining configuration and run-time parameters: command line options, environment variables, the XF86Config configuration file, auto-detection, and fallback defaults