About The X Window System.

Date: 25 August 1999

The X Window System provides the only common windowing environment bridging the heterogeneous platforms in today's enterprise computing. The X Window System is one of the most successful open source, collaborative technologies developed to date and is the de facto standard graphical engine of UNIX and Linux systems. The inherent independence of the X Window System from the operating system and hardware has made it widely available and deployed with over 20 million users world-wide. All major hardware vendors support the X Window System and many third parties provide technologies for integrating X Window System applications into the network computer or personal computer environment including DOS, Windows, Windows 9x, Windows NT and Linux. Further, thousands of software developers provide X Window System applications, and with the emergence of Linux, the number of users is growing exponentially.