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Type of site | Software development management system |
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| Available in | English |
| Created by | Havoc Pennington |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | March 2000 |
| Current status | Online |
freedesktop.org (fd.o), formerly X Desktop Group (XDG),[1][2] is a project to work on interoperability and shared base technology for free-software desktop environments for the X Window System (X11) and Wayland on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Although freedesktop.org produces specifications for interoperability, it is not a formal standards body.[3]
The project was founded by Havoc Pennington, a GNOME developer working for Red Hat in March 2000. Widely used open-source X-based desktop projects, such as GNOME, KDE's Plasma Desktop, and Xfce, are collaborating with the freedesktop.org project. In 2006, the project released Portland 1.0 (xdg-utils), a set of common interfaces for desktop environments.[4] freedesktop.org joined the X.Org Foundation in 2019.[5][6] Some of the project's servers are hosted by Portland State University.[7]
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- ^ "Freedesktop.org, home of the X Desktop Group". Archived from the original on 2001-02-02. Retrieved 2013-08-26.
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- ^ Portland points desktop Linux at $10 billion market Archived October 12, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, DesktopLinux.com, 11 October 2006
- ^ "X.Org To Join Forces With FreeDesktop.org While Foundation Elections Hit A Snag". Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ Larabel, Michael (11 April 2019). "X.Org To Join Forces With FreeDesktop.org While Foundation Elections Hit A Snag". Phoronix. Retrieved 2023-10-27.
- ^ "Welcome to freedesktop.org". Freedesktop.org. Retrieved 27 October 2023.