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However, many people still refer to the system anyway as "XWindows".
X is responsible for drawing graphics (including text). Without X, you would only have the text mode that is build in to most display adapters (eg what you see when linux is booting up).
XFree86 is a FreeSoftware implementation of the X protocol originally designed for the free [x86] unix operating systems but now supports non-x86 hardware.
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