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<h3 align=center color=navy>X.Org Foundation Announces Formation and First Release</h3>
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<p align=center><i>The new X.Org Foundation will help drive the X Window System to support<br>
state-of-the-art desktop technologies</i></p>
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<p><b>San Francisco,CA., April 6, 2004</b> - X.Org Foundation today announces their first
release of the X Window System since the formation of the Foundation in January
of this year. The new X.Org release, called X Window System Version 11 Release
6.7 (X11R6.7), builds on the work of the X.Org X11R6.6 and XFree86<sup>TM</sup>
Project Inc. V4.4RC2 releases to combine many of the latest developments from a
large number of the participants and companies working with the X Window
community. The X Window System X11R6.7 release can be found at <a
href="http://www.x.org/">http://www.x.org/</a>.</p>
<p>“We have made
great progress in creating a framework upon which further development of the X
Window System can be based,” agreed the Interim Board of the Foundation. “We
expect to provide the desktop community with at least two more releases of the
X Window System before the end of this year to encompass all of the new
technologies and ideas that we are developing”.</p>
<p>“This release marks the return to community
development of the X Window System under governance open to all contributors
for the first time since the founding of the X Consortium in 1988,” said Jim
Gettys, co-founder of the X Window System, Interim X.Org Foundation board
member and member of the research staff of HP Labs.</p>
<p>“We welcome the formation of the X.Org
Foundation and are looking forward to support this group to bring the work on
the X Window System to a new technological level,” said Egbert Eich, X Window
System developer at Novell's SUSE LINUX business unit.</p>
<p>Matthias Ettrich, Director of Software
Development at Trolltech, said “As a multi-platform GUI toolkit vendor, we
appreciate the value of a powerful underlying windowing system, and as such, we
are excited about the direction X.Org is heading. We are very much looking
forward to supporting new technologies around X, and we will do our share to make
the advances of the platform accessible to software developers.”</p>
<p>“Being an underlying technology to the
most popular desktops on all GNU Systems, in particular GNOME and KDE, the X
Window System is indeed an essential part of most Free Software operating
systems,” said Georg C.F. Greve, president of the FSF Europe. “It helps many
users to access and enjoy the freedom of Free Software. We are glad that X.Org
will from now on watch over this enabling technology.”</p>
<p>“Red Hat is pleased to be working with the new X.Org
Foundation to build a vibrant open source community around X Window System
innovation. Look for X11R6.7 in the upcoming Fedora Core 2 and future Red Hat
Enterprise Linux products,” said Havoc Pennington, desktop development manager
at Red Hat.</p>
<p>“As one of the largest GNU/Linux distribution projects in the
world, the Debian Project is delighted to see that freedom and diversity are
alive and well in the X technology sector. We're also delighted that the
X.Org Foundation is dedicated to retaining the licensing model that has made
the X Window System an enduring success,” said Branden Robinson of the Debian
GNU/Linux Project. “Like us, the X.Org Foundation is a member-driven
organization devoted to Free Software. We cannot help but be enthusiastic
about them and the work they're doing for the X Window System and Free Software
communities alike.”</p>
<p>“An open source project works best with
a large community of active contributors. OSI welcomes the return of X to
open source development by the entire community. I'm looking forward to
contributing myself,” said Russell Nelson, Vice-President of the Open Source
Initiative.</p>
<p>“Cygwin/X is
benefiting heavily from the community-building spirit of the X.Org Foundation
and their open development environment. We are pleased to be basing our
releases on the good work of the X.Org Foundation”, said Harold L Hunt II of
the Cygwin/X project.</p>
<p>“The XonX Project is very pleased that
the X.Org Foundation has been eager to support Darwin and Mac OS X. X11R6.7
adds new features that will be appreciated by many Mac OS X users,” said Torrey
Lyons, XonX Project Founder.</p>
<p>Membership of the
X.Org Foundation is free to all participants. Applications for membership are
now being accepted, and active participants in the further development of the X
Window System are invited to visit:
<a href="http://www.x.org/XOrg_Foundation_Membership.html">
http://www.x.org/XOrg_Foundation_Membership.html</a>
to complete a membership application. Participation in the Foundation’s Sponsor
Group is also available to those who wish to financially support the activities
The X.Org Foundation. Current Sponsors include Hewlett Packard, IBM, and SUN
Microsystems.</p>
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<p><b>About The Foundation Release</b></p>
<p>X11R6.7 is the
first official X.Org Foundation release. It is the successor release to X11R6.6
from X.Org. To assure consistency with industry and community requirements and
practices, it was developed from the X.Org X11R6.6 code base and the XFree86
V4.4RC2 code base, with the addition of bug fixes and enhancements. These
enhancements include: new IPv6 functionality, Freetype V2.1.7, fontconfig
V2.2.2, Xft V2.1.6, Xcursor V1.1.2, and Xrender V0.8.4, with corresponding
changes in documentation and notices. Additional source and binary releases are
anticipated during 2004.</p>
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<p><b>About The X Window System</b></p>
<p>The X Window
System provides the only common networked windowing environment bridging the
heterogeneous platforms in today's computing. The X Window System is one of the
most successful open-source, collaborative technologies developed to date and
is the standard graphical window system for the Linux and UNIX operating
systems. The inherent independence of the X Window System from the operating
system, the network and the hardware, as well as its successful interoperability,
have made it widely available and deployed with more than 30 million users
worldwide. All major hardware vendors support the X Window System and many
third parties provide technologies for integrating X Window System applications
into the networked computer or personal computer environments including
Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux and Mac OS® X. Further, thousands of software
developers provide X Window System applications, and with the continued growth
of Linux and the emergence of Mac OS X, the number of users is growing rapidly.</p>
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<p><b>About X.Org Foundation</b></p>
<p>X.Org Foundation
L.L.C. is a recently formed Delaware company organized to operate as a
scientific charity under IRS code 501(c)(3), chartered to develop and execute
effective strategies that provide worldwide stewardship of the X Window System
technology and standards. The group is currently managed by an Interim Board of
Directors that includes: Stuart Anderson (Free Standards Group), Egbert Eich
(SUSE), Jim Gettys (HP), Georg Greve (Free Software Foundation Europe), Stuart
Kreitman (SUN Microsystems), Kevin Martin (Red Hat), Jim McQuillan (Linux
Terminal Server Project), Leon Shiman (Shiman Associates) and Jeremy White
(Code Weavers). The website for the X.Org Foundation can be found at
<a href="http://www.x.org/">http://www.x.org/</a>.</p>
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<p>Note to editors:
UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries.
LINUX is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. XFree86 is a trademark of
The XFree86 Project, Inc. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of
Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Mac OS is a
registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other
countries. All other company names are trademarks of the registered owners. </p>
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