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Freedesktop.org

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Freedesktop.org

Summary

Freedesktop.org is a project[1]. Freedesktop.org has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Freedesktop.org authored Havoc Pennington[3].
  • Freedesktop.org's instance of is recorded as project[4].
  • Freedesktop.org's instance of is recorded as website[5].
  • Freedesktop.org's instance of is recorded as free software community[6].
  • Freedesktop.org's founder is recorded as Havoc Pennington[7].
  • Freedesktop.org's logo image is recorded as Freedesktop-logo.svg[8].
  • Freedesktop.org's Commons category is recorded as Freedesktop.org[9].
  • Freedesktop.org's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • +2000-03-30T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Freedesktop.org[11].
  • Freedesktop.org's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0272w3[12].
  • Freedesktop.org's official website is recorded as https://www.freedesktop.org[13].
  • Freedesktop.org's official website is recorded as https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/[14].
  • Freedesktop.org's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Freedesktop.org[15].
  • Freedesktop.org's described by source is recorded as The varying openness of digital open science tools[16].
  • Freedesktop.org's IRC channel URL is recorded as irc://irc.freenode.net/#freedesktop[17].
  • Freedesktop.org's Alexa rank is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+33359'}[18].
  • Freedesktop.org's interested in is recorded as desktop Linux[19].
  • Freedesktop.org's Quora topic ID is recorded as Freedesktop-org[20].
  • Freedesktop.org's Mastodon address is recorded as [email protected][21].
  • Freedesktop.org's announcement date is recorded as +2000-04-27T00:00:00Z[22].
  • Freedesktop.org's social media followers is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+7066'}[23].
  • Freedesktop.org's social media followers is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+7170'}[24].
  • Freedesktop.org's social media followers is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+7233'}[25].
  • Freedesktop.org's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as XDG[26].

Body

Founding

Freedesktop.org's founder is recorded as Havoc Pennington[7]. +2000-03-30T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Freedesktop.org[11].

Why It Matters

Freedesktop.org has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Alexa Internet. Retrieved . alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . static.lwn.net. static.lwn.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Freedesktop.org. Retrieved May 7, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/freedesktop-org
MLA “Freedesktop.org.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 7 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/freedesktop-org.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_freedesktop-org_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Freedesktop.org}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/freedesktop-org}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-07}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Freedesktop.org — https://4ort.xyz/entity/freedesktop-org (retrieved 2026-05-07)

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