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http://www.X.org/
— Home page of the X.Org Foundation, which produces the X11R6.8
release of the X Window System. The X11R6.8 release is bundled with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux to control the necessary hardware and provide a GUI environment.
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http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
and documention for the X Window System.
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http://dri.sourceforge.net/
The DRI is the core hardware 3D acceleration component of X.
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http://www.gnome.org/
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http://www.kde.org/
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http://nexp.cs.pdx.edu/fontconfig/
6.3. Related Books
• The Concise Guide to XFree86 for Linux by Aron Hsiao; Que — Provides an expert's view of
the operation of XFree86 on Linux systems.
• The New XFree86 by Bill Ball; Prima Publishing — Discuses XFree86 and its relationship with
the popular desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE.
• Beginning GTK+ and GNOME by Peter Wright; Wrox Press, Inc. — Introduces programmers
to the GNOME architecture, showing them how to get started with GTK+.
• GTK+/GNOME Application Development by Havoc Pennington; New Riders Publishing — An
advanced look into the heart of GTK+ programming, focusing on sample code and a thorough
look at the available APIs.
• KDE 2.0 Development by David Sweet and Matthias Ettrich; Sams Publishing — Instructs
beginning and advanced developers on taking advantage of the many environment guidelines
required to built QT applications for KDE.
— Home page of the XR116.8 release, which provides binaries
— Home page of the DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) project.
[http://www.gnome.org] — Home of the GNOME project.
[http://www.kde.org] — Home of the KDE desktop environment.
— Home of the Fontconfig font subsystem for X.
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