Xsun

Xsun

Developer(s)	Sun Microsystems
Initial release	November 1993 (1993-11)
Operating system	Solaris
Type	X Window System
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Xsun is an X Window System (X11) display server implementation included with Solaris, developed by Sun Microsystems. It replaced the older "Xnews" server, which supported the display of not only X11 applications, but also NeWS and SunView programs. Xsun removed support for these legacy environments, and added support for Display PostScript.

Xsun was first released as part of Solaris 2.3 in November 1993. It was originally based on X11 Release 5; the version included with Solaris 10 is based on X11R6.6.

Solaris 10 includes both Xsun and the X.Org Server, the open-source software reference implementation of X, based on X11R7. The "Xorg" server is the most commonly used server for x86 systems, and the Xsun server remains the most commonly used for SPARC systems; Xorg support for SPARC was only added in Solaris 10 8/07, and has very limited driver support. The OpenSolaris project has stated that the future direction for X support is via the Xorg implementation. Oracle Solaris 11, released in November, 2011, includes only Xorg implementation of X11 server (X.org 1.10.3); therefore, Xsun implementation has been deprecated.

Design

In contrast to XFree86, XSun implemented kernel-based mode setting for some graphics device drivers.

See also

• OpenWindows
• CDE

External links

• Xsun Manual Page