what is X-windows?

Answer 1

x-windows is an advanced version of windows

Answer 2

X-Window Last modified: Thursday, November 08, 2001




X-Windows is a windowing and graphics system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). MIT has placed the X-Window source code in the public domain, making it a particularly attractive system for UNIX vendors. Almost all UNIX graphical interfaces, including Motif and OpenLook, are based on X-Window.

Answer 3

In computing, the X Window System (commonly X11 or X) provides windowing for bitmap displays. It provides the standard toolkit and protocol to build graphical user interfaces (GUI) on Unix, Unix-like operating systems, and OpenVMS—almost all modern operating systems support it.

X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the screen and interacting with a mouse and/or keyboard. X does not mandate the user interface – individual client programs handle this. As such, the visual styling of X-based environments varies greatly; different programs may present radically different interfaces.

X features network transparency: the machine where application programs (the client applications) run can differ from the user's local machine (the display server). X's usage of the terms "client" and "server" reverses what people often expect, in that "server" refers to the user's local display ("display server") rather than to a remote machine.

X originated at MIT in 1984. The current protocol version, X11, appeared in September 1987. The X.Org Foundation leads the X project, with the current reference implementation, version 11 release 7.1, available as free software under the MIT License and similar permissive licenses.

Answer 4

It's a platform for building GUI's on *nix systems.

BTW, it's X Window, not Windows.

Answer 5

X windows is a graphical subsystem for unix/linux. This is not related in anyway to any Microsoft products.

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

http://www.x.org/