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An X Server is a program that is responsible for drawing graphics on a machine's video.
Graphical applications (called "X Clients") use the [X11] protocol to talk to the X Server. This turns around the usual meaning of client and server, and the application may be running on a remote machine, and displaying on your local machine.
-On [Linux] platforms, the [X11] implementation most commonly used is [XFree86].
+On [Linux] platforms, the [X11] implementation most commonly used is the [XOrg] reference implementation. (Previous versions of distributions used
+the older
[XFree86] implementation that XOrg is derived from)
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