Xorg and X.org used in documentation

Marc Fonvieille blackend at FreeBSD.org
Sat Sep 18 09:29:14 UTC 2004


On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:43:23AM +0200, Joel Dahl wrote:
> Which is correct? We use both in our docs, for example, chapter 5 in the
> handbook (The X Window System) uses Xorg, but chapter 11 in the faq (The
> X Window System and Virtual Consoles) uses X.org.
> 
> As a reference, http://www.x.org seems to prefer X.org.
>

As written on the mentioned site, the X server of the X.Org Foundation
is called Xorg (for example see
http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.7.0/doc/RELNOTES3.html#4 or one of
my mail posted in august regarding the 5.3 TODO list).
I defined an entity to prevent that confusion.  In the FAQ some spelling
are correct some others not.  Even some X.Org docs are not consistent on
this point but they do not use "X.org".

Marc



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