The X Window System, a graphical user interface system popular on Unix systems.
Mac OS X, that is, version 10 of MacOS, made by Apple Computer. MacOS X does not run on top of the X Window System, instead relying on its own GUI system called Aqua. But, an X workstation system is available on X.3 Panther and later.
A fundamental feature of X is network operability. That is, the X workstation, where the human sees windows on a graphical screen, and operates a keyboard and mouse, can be on a different machine from where the actual application program is running. These are connected usually by a TCP/IP network. (Confusingly, the X workstation is called the "X server" and the application is called the "X client".)
For more information, contact www.x.org, the X/Open Group. One of the most popular implementations is XFree86, at xfree86.org, available on almost all Linux and FreeBSD distributions.
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