XWin

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This article discusses the Xwin discussion forums. For the X-Win32 X server, see X-Win32.

Keith Packard started the XWin project in 2003 in order to provide forums for collaborative and co-operative discussion between X developers, X end-users, and potential developers. Due to misleading media reports from news sites such as Slashdot and others, the public gained the incorrect impression that the project had forked the XFree86 source code. The Xwin project however never did perform a fork of XFree86, and never intended to do so. The Xwin project clearly stated this on the project homepage:

Quote: Web site title header: "Xwin.org - Xwin is just a website"

"xwin.org is a forum for community participation in X, not a development project. The X development community needs to work together to form a government. The hope is that community governance will encourage rapid advances in the X window system."

Subsequently the XWin forum closed, and it now directs users to freedesktop.org. Keith Packard began a new development branch of the X Window System under the name Xserver hosted at freedesktop.org. Xserver uses the KDrive API driver model. This next generation of X server follows a different direction to that of XFree86.

External links

• The homepage of the new generation of X server
• Homepage of the XFree86 project
• X.org Foundation