Summary
Xenocara is the OpenBSD build infrastructure for the project's customised X.Org Server that utilises a dedicated _x11 user by default to drop privileges and perform privilege separation in accordance to OpenBSD's "least privilege" policy.
| Original author(s) | Matthieu Herrb |
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| Developer(s) | The OpenBSD Project |
| Initial release | 1 November 2007[1] |
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| Operating system | OpenBSD |
| Type | Windowing system |
| License | X11 |
| Website | www |
Until release 6.9, X.Org used imake but recent modularised versions have switched to GNU autotools. Xenocara uses BSD make and is designed to ease building and maintenance of modularised X.Org within the OpenBSD CVS tree. It first appeared with OpenBSD 4.2, released on 1 November 2007;[1] before that, OpenBSD had a different build system and repositories for X in CVS,[2] which have since been completely retired in favour of Xenocara.[3]
Apart from X.Org, Xenocara builds several other projects, including window managers FVWM and cwm.
Adoption edit
Xenocara is the default display server for the X Window System for:
References edit
- ^ a b Federico Biancuzzi (2007-11-01). "Puffy's Marathon: What's New in OpenBSD 4.2". O'Reilly Media. Archived from the original on 2011-10-13. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
- "Puffy's Marathon: What's New in OpenBSD 4.2 - ONLamp.com". Undeadly.
- ^ Matthieu Herrb (2007-02-24). "fosdem07-xenocara.pdf" (PDF). OpenBSD / FOSDEM. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
- ^ "cvsweb". OpenBSD. Archived from the original on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
- ^ "Milky Way v0.3 release". Hyperbola Project. 23 September 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
External links edit
- Official website
- CVS repository