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An open source implementation of the X Window System that has been ported to OS/2 as simply XFree86OS/2, sometimes shortened to XFree86/2, and can be run as an alternative graphical shell or as a task. In addition to the X Window System itself the XFreeOS/2 project ported a whole host of applications to the system from the world of UNIX and UNIX like operating systems.

It should be noted that in X Windows parlance, and therefore in XFree86 as well, the terms "Client" and "Server" have the exact opposite meaning to what the rest of the world thinks they mean.

Links & publications

Xfree86 homepage
XFree86/OS2 Project - The old XFree86 home pages, now woutdated bt there might be some useful info hiding there.
Dutch XFree86/OS2 page - 20 years out of date, but some useful info nonetheless.

Installation

Blonde Guy's Xfree86OS/2 installation tutorial
Christian Hennecke: Installing XFree86/OS2 4.3.0 - From OS/2 Voice Newsletter.
Chris Wenham: Installing XFree86 in OS/2 (from OS/2 e-Zine)

Setup

Darrell Spice Jr.: Running Linux software on your OS/2 system via Xfree86/OS2

Technical

Holger Veit: Notes on Rebuilding XFree86®/OS2 from Scratch

Background info

Chris McKillop: OS/2 and X-Windows... Come Again? - Interview with Holger Veit about XFree86 on OS/2

Authors & publisher

The XFree86 Foundation
Holger Veit (OS/2 port)

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 ;Installation
 * [http://www.blondeguy.com/XFree86Essay.html Blonde Guy's Xfree86OS/2 installation tutorial]
-* [[Christian Hennecke]]: [http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0403H/vnewsf6.htm Installing XFree86/OS2 4.3.0] - From OS/2 Voice Newsletter.
+*Christian Hennecke: [http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0403H/vnewsf6.htm Installing XFree86/OS2 4.3.0] - From OS/2 Voice Newsletter.
-* [[Chris Wenham]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20080621002821/http://www.os2ezine.com/v4n4/xfree.htm Installing XFree86 in OS/2] - From the now defunct [[OS/2 e-Zine]] - Archive copy from [[Archive.org]]
+* [[Chris Wenham]]: [http://www.os2ezine.com/v4n4/xfree.htm Installing XFree86 in OS/2] (from [[OS/2 e-Zine]])
 ;Setup
 * [[Darrell Spice]] Jr.: [[Running Linux software on your OS/2 system via Xfree86/OS2]]
 ;Technical
-* [[Holger Veit]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130309011321/http://www.xfree86.org/current/OS2Notes.pdf Notes on Rebuilding XFree86®/OS2 from Scratch] - Old document that has now been deleted from the Xfree86 server for some reason. - From Archive.org
+*Holger Veit: [ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.8.0/doc/PDF/OS2Notes.pdf Notes on Rebuilding XFree86®/OS2 from Scratch]
 ;Background info
-* [[Chris McKillop]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110527153409/http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n6/xfree.html OS/2 and X-Windows... Come Again?] - Interview with [[Holger Veit]] about XFree86 on OS/2 - From the now defunct OS/2 e-Zine - Archive copy from Archive.org.
+*Chris McKillop: [http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n6/xfree.html OS/2 and X-Windows... Come Again?] - Interview with [[Holger Veit]] about XFree86 on OS/2
 ==Authors & publisher==
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 * [[Holger Veit]] (OS/2 port)
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+[[Category:Open Source Software]][[Category:Software written in C]]
-[[Category:Software written in C]]
 [[Category:XFree86]]