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X Window System
Who runs X Window System, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest open source display server alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- freedesktop.org
Measured from X Window System’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit X Window System01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs X Window System
X Window System x.org
Wikidata: graphics controller and network protocol for UNIX-like systems
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What X Window System tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on X Window System’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to X Window System
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to X Window System, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01 freedesktop.org Top 10K
open-source desktop environment software project
Very close - 02
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Very close - 03
desktop environment and graphical user interface
Close - 04
Home - KDE Community
KDE is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy.
Close - 05
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Very close - 06
Xfce Desktop Environment
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.
Very close - 07
Enlightenment Main
window manager for Unix-like operating systems
Very close - 08
The NetBSD Project
Very close - 09
OpenBSD
the main OpenBSD page
Very close - 10
Arch Linux
Linux distribution
Very close - 11
Debian -- The Universal Operating System
Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.
Very close - 12
AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System
An Open Source, community owned and governed, forever-free enterprise Linux distribution.
Very close - 13
Enter the void
Welcome to the Void
Very close - 14
The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.
Close - 15
MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
Very close - 16
Open Source Security Foundation – Linux Foundation Projects
industry forum for the improvement of the security of open source software
Close - 17
OpenJDK
Java development kit
Close - 18
OpenInfra Foundation: We build communities who write software that runs in production - OpenInfra Foundation
The OpenInfra Foundation is an open source foundation supporting a global community of 110,000 individuals to build and operate open infrastructure software.
Close - 19
Welcome – Gentoo Linux
The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.
Close - 20
Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation
American nonprofit open-source software community
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles X Window System’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones X Window System uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what X Window System adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 1 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 41 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to X Window System’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Payments
- PayPal page source: paypalobjects.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on x.org 12/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on x.org 7/20
- nginx · not on x.org 6/20
- Bootstrap · not on x.org 6/20
- jQuery · not on x.org 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on x.org 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on x.org 4/20
- Fastly · not on x.org 4/20
- Matomo · not on x.org 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on x.org 3/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on x.org 3/20
- Google Workspace · not on x.org 3/20
- Cloudflare · not on x.org 2/20
- jsDelivr · not on x.org 2/20
- SendGrid · not on x.org 2/20
- Google Analytics · not on x.org 2/20