However, one particular implementation of X for PCs, named X386, piqued the
interest of many developers in 1992. When distribution of a commercial version of
X386 began, the open source version was renamed XFree86 (say both names aloud
to realize the pun). Eventually, most X innovations were made within the XFree86
project rather than coming from the official guardians of the X standard.
But internal politics and a rigid organizational structure took their toll on the The
XFree86 Project, Inc, and after a license dispute in 2003, some key developers
decided that they??™d had enough. They moved development back to the almostdefunct
X.org, formed The X.org Foundation, and shifted work into high gear. Most
open source operating system distributions adopted the X.org server in 2004.
In the end, active X development wound up where it had started, the successor to the
XFree86 project replaced the sample implementation of X technology, and a revitalized
developer community started to once again steadily advance the state of the
technology.
1.3 The Renaissance: New X Versus Old X
I recently skimmed through the 1994 book X User Tools, by Linda Mui and Valerie
Quercia (O??™Reilly), and the 1993 UnixWare user documentation.
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