Xenocara
{{Short description|Modified X.Org Server for OpenBSD}}
{{About|the software|the genus of fish|Ancistrus}}
{{Infobox Software|
name = Xenocara
|logo =
|caption =
|author = Matthieu Herrb
|developer = The OpenBSD Project
|released = {{start date and age|2007|11|01|df=yes}}
|latest_release_version =
|latest_release_date =
|operating_system = OpenBSD
|genre = Windowing system
|license = X11
}}
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.
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 {{start date and age|2007|11|01|df=yes|p=yes}}; before that, OpenBSD had a different build system and repositories for X in CVS, which have since been completely retired in favour of Xenocara.
Apart from X.Org, Xenocara builds several other projects, including window managers FVWM and cwm.
Adoption
Xenocara is the default display server for the X Window System for:
References
{{reflist
|refs=
|url= http://www.openbsd.org/papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf
|title= fosdem07-xenocara.pdf
|author= Matthieu Herrb
|date= 2007-02-24 |access-date=2019-03-03
}}
|url= http://onlamp.com/lpt/a/7155
|title= Puffy's Marathon: What's New in OpenBSD 4.2
|author= Federico Biancuzzi
|publisher= O'Reilly Media
|date= 2007-11-01 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111013021755/http://onlamp.com/lpt/a/7155
|access-date=2019-03-03
|archive-date= 2011-10-13
}}
- {{cite web |title=Puffy's Marathon: What's New in OpenBSD 4.2 - ONLamp.com |url=http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20071102080000 |website=Undeadly}}
|url= http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101125155757/http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/
|url-status = live
|title= cvsweb
|publisher= OpenBSD
|archive-date= 2010-11-25 |access-date=2019-03-03
}}
}}
External links
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
- {{official website}}
- [http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/xenocara/ CVS repository]
{{OpenBSD}}