an Francisco, CA., April 6, 2004 - 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
XFree86TM 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 http://www.x.org/.
“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”.
“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.