What is the X Window Server?
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As standards are important, a standard for drawing and moving windows on a
-screen, interacting with the user through mouse and keyboard and other basic yet
+screen, interacting with the user through mouse, keyboard and other basic, yet
important aspects has been created and named the X Window System,
commonly abbreviated as X11 or just X. It is used on Unix, Linux
and Unix-like operating systems throughout the world.
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The application that provides Linux users with the ability to run graphical
user interfaces and that uses the X11 standard is Xorg-X11, a fork of
the XFree86 project. XFree86 has decided to use a license that might not be
-compatible with the GPL license; the use of Xorg is therefore recommended. Note
-though that the differences between Xorg and XFree86 are currently very slim; if
-you know one, you know the other. XFree86 versions prior to 4.4 are available
-through Portage as well.
+compatible with the GPL license; the use of Xorg is therefore recommended.
+The official Portage tree does not provide an XFree86 package anymore.