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X.Org Foundation

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The X.Org Foundation is a non-profit corporation chartered to research, develop, support, organize, administrate, standardize, promote, and defend a free and open accelerated graphics stack. [1]

66 relations: Bordeaux, Cairo (graphics), Calculator, Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Chicago, Clare College, Cambridge, Common Desktop Environment, Cursor (user interface), Direct Rendering Manager, DragonFly BSD, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Zoo, Fermi (microarchitecture), Free and open-source graphics device driver, FreeBSD, Freedesktop.org, GeForce, GNOME, Google, Google Summer of Code, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Histogram, KDE, Keith Packard, List of free-software events, Load (computing), LWN.net, McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Menlo Park, California, Mesa (computer graphics), Mountain View, California, Multi-Pointer X, Nouveau (software), Nuremberg, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, Reference implementation, Santa Clara, California, Software Freedom Law Center, Software in the Public Interest, Sun Microsystems, SUSE, TechShop, Tesla (microarchitecture), The Cathedral and the Bazaar, The Open Group, Tizen, Toronto, ..., Toulouse, Toulouse 1 University Capitole, University of Bordeaux 1, Utility software, Wayland (display server protocol), X keyboard extension, X Window System, X Window System core protocol, X.Org Foundation, X.Org Server, XCB, Xephyr, XFree86, Xgl, Xlib, Xterm. Expand index (16 more) »

Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Occitan: Bordèu) is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France.

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Cairo (graphics)

Cairo (stylized as cairo) is an open source programming library that provides a vector graphics-based, device-independent API for software developers.

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Calculator

An electronic calculator is typically a portable electronic device used to perform calculations, ranging from basic arithmetic to complex mathematics.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Clare College, Cambridge

Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Common Desktop Environment

The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a desktop environment for Unix and OpenVMS, based on the Motif widget toolkit.

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Cursor (user interface)

In computer user interfaces, a cursor is an indicator used to show the current position for user interaction on a computer monitor or other display device that will respond to input from a text input or pointing device.

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Direct Rendering Manager

In computing, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM), a subsystem of the Linux kernel, interfaces with the GPUs of modern video cards.

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DragonFly BSD

DragonFly BSD is a free and open source Unix-like operating system created as a fork of FreeBSD 4.8.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edinburgh Zoo

Edinburgh Zoo, formerly the Scottish National Zoological Park, is an non-profit zoological park in Corstorphine, a suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.

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Fermi (microarchitecture)

Fermi is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, first released to retail in April 2010, as the successor to the Tesla microarchitecture.

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Free and open-source graphics device driver

A free and open-source graphics device driver is a software stack which controls computer-graphics hardware and supports graphics-rendering application programming interfaces (APIs) and is released under a free and open-source software license.

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FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

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Freedesktop.org

freedesktop.org (fd.o) is a project to work on interoperability and shared base technology for free software desktop environments for the X Window System (X11) on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

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GeForce

GeForce is a brand of graphics processing units (GPUs) designed by Nvidia.

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GNOME

GNOME is a desktop environment composed of free and open-source software that runs on Linux and most BSD derivatives.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Google Summer of Code

The Google Summer of Code, often abbreviated to GSoC, is an international annual program, first held from May to August 2005, in which Google awards stipends, which depends on the purchasing power parity of the country the student's university belongs to, to all students who successfully complete a requested free and open-source software coding project during the summer.

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Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences

Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences (Haaga-Helia ammattikorkeakoulu, Haaga-Helia yrkeshögskola; formerly Helsinki Business Polytechnic and Helia) is one of Finland's largest business polytechnics ("ammattikorkeakoulu" in Finnish).

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Helsinki

Helsinki (or;; Helsingfors) is the capital city and most populous municipality of Finland.

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Histogram

A histogram is an accurate representation of the distribution of numerical data.

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KDE

KDE is an international free software community that develops Free and Open Source based software.

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Keith Packard

Keith Packard (born April 16, 1963) is a software developer, best known for his work on the X Window System.

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List of free-software events

The following is a list of computer conferences and other events focused on the development and usage of free and open source software (FOSS).

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Load (computing)

In UNIX computing, the system load is a measure of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs.

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LWN.net

LWN.net is a computing webzine with an emphasis on free software and software for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

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McCormick Tribune Campus Center

The McCormick Tribune Campus Center (MTCC) is a building on the main campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology, in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the south side of Chicago.

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Menlo Park, California

Menlo Park is a city at the eastern edge of San Mateo County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, in the United States.

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Mesa (computer graphics)

Mesa, also called Mesa3D and The Mesa 3D Graphics Library, is an open source software implementation of OpenGL, Vulkan, and other graphics specifications.

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Mountain View, California

Mountain View is a city located in Santa Clara County, California, United States, named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Multi-Pointer X

Multi-pointer X (MPX) is a part of X input extension and previously a modification to the existing X.Org implementation of the X Window System.

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Nouveau (software)

nouveau is a free and open-source graphics device driver for Nvidia video cards and the Tegra family of SoCs written by independent software engineers, with minor help from Nvidia employees.

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Nuremberg

Nuremberg (Nürnberg) is a city on the river Pegnitz and on the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia, about north of Munich.

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Portland State University

Portland State University (PSU) is a public research university located in the southwest University District of downtown Portland, Oregon, United States.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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Reference implementation

In the software development process, a reference implementation (or, less frequently, sample implementation or model implementation) is the standard from which all other implementations and corresponding customizations are derived.

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Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara is a city in Santa Clara County, California.

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Software Freedom Law Center

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is an organization that provides pro bono legal representation and related services to not-for-profit developers of free software/open source software.

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Software in the Public Interest

Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed to help other organizations create and distribute free/open-source software and open-source hardware.

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Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was an American company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC.

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SUSE

SUSE is a German-based, multinational, open-source software company that develops and sells Linux products to business customers.

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TechShop

TechShop was (bankrupt 2/26/2018) a chain of membership-based, open-access, do-it-yourself (DIY) workshops and fabrication studios.

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Tesla (microarchitecture)

Named after the pioneering electrical engineer Nikola Tesla, Tesla is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to their prior microarchitectures.

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The Cathedral and the Bazaar

The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (abbreviated CatB) is an essay, and later a book, by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing an open source project, fetchmail.

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The Open Group

The Open Group is an industry consortium that seeks to "enable the achievement of business objectives" by developing "open, vendor-neutral technology standards and certifications".

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Tizen

Tizen is a mobile operating system developed by Samsung that runs on a wide range of Samsung devices, including smartphones; tablets; in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) devices; smart televisions; smart cameras; smartwatches; Blu-ray players; smart home appliances (refrigerators, lighting, washing machines, air conditioners, ovens/microwaves); and robotic vacuum cleaners.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Toulouse

Toulouse (Tolosa, Tolosa) is the capital of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the region of Occitanie.

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Toulouse 1 University Capitole

Toulouse 1 University Capitole (Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, also called UT1) is a French university established in 1968.

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University of Bordeaux 1

The University of Bordeaux 1 is a French university, in the Academy of Bordeaux.

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Utility software

Utility software is system software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize or maintain a computer.

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Wayland (display server protocol)

Wayland is a computer protocol that specifies the communication between a display server (called a Wayland compositor) and its clients, as well as a reference implementation of the protocol in the C programming language.

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X keyboard extension

In human-computer interfaces, the X keyboard extension or XKB is a part of the X Window System that extends the ability to control the keyboard over what is offered by the X Window System core protocol.

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X Window System

The X Window System (X11, or shortened to simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on UNIX-like computer operating systems.

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X Window System core protocol

The X Window System core protocolRobert W. Scheifler and James Gettys: X Window System: Core and extension protocols, X version 11, releases 6 and 6.1, Digital Press 1996, RFC 1013Grant Edwards.

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X.Org Foundation

The X.Org Foundation is a non-profit corporation chartered to research, develop, support, organize, administrate, standardize, promote, and defend a free and open accelerated graphics stack.

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X.Org Server

X.Org Server is the free and open source implementation of the display server for the X Window System stewarded by the X.Org Foundation.

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XCB

XCB (X protocol C-language Binding) is a library implementing the client-side of the X11 display server protocol.

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Xephyr

Xephyr is display server software implementing the X11 display server protocol based on KDrive which targets a window on a host X Server as its framebuffer.

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XFree86

XFree86 was an implementation of the X Window System.

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Xgl

Xgl is an obsolete display server implementation supporting the X Window System protocol designed to take advantage of modern graphics cards via their OpenGL drivers, layered on top of OpenGL.

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Xlib

Xlib (also known as libX11) is an X Window System protocol client library written in the C programming language.

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Xterm

In computing, xterm is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.Org_Foundation

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