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The XOrg Foundation Open Source Public Implementation of X11 (the XOrg Server) is the official reference implementation of the X Window System. The current release is X11R6.7.0, released 7th April 2004. It is open source and free software.

The project is run by the X.Org Foundation and is hosted by freedesktop.org.

The XOrg Server is forked from XFree86 4.4 RC2, owing to disagreement with the new license for XFree86 4.4 final, with other changes folded in from X11R6.6. Many of the previous XFree86 developers have joined the project, which is expected to be run in a more open manner than XFree86. (See The Cathedral and the Bazaar.)

The XOrg Server has been adopted by Gentoo Linux, Fedora Linux, Slackware, Mandrake Linux and Cygwin/X in place of XFree86, and FreeBSD anticipates a similar move in the near future [1]. It is increasingly popular with the open-source Unix-like operating systems.

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