30 years of X
The X.Org Foundation reminds
us that the first announcement for the X Window System came out on
June 19, 1984. "The X developers have pushed the boundaries and
moved X from a system originally written to run on the CPU of a VAX VS100
to one that runs the GUI on today's laptops with 3D rendering
capabilities. Indeed, X predates the concept of a Graphics Processing Unit
(GPU) as we currently know it, and even the company that popularized this
term in 1999, Nvidia." Congratulations to one of the oldest and
most successful free software projects out there.