Re: Wayland vs X

[Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2022, 11:49 AM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 11:15:54AM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:

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> Here's something about the X ecosystem that I don't understand anymore.
> I've read the statement
> that "X isn't developed anymore, only XFree86". In other words, X source
> was re-based to Xfree86
> a long time ago. So it must be that in the XFree86-based X Windows, only
> the X server is under active
> development, nothing more than that. Is that accurate?

I think the authoritative place is:

  https://x.org/wiki/

(you can donate via SPI, if you wish ;-)

See I can't tell if that supports my claim or yours :-)

Here's why: I went to that site and among others, looked at the page for distribution-specific X mail lists. Out of Redhat, Suse, Oracle OpenSolaris and OpenBSD, not one of those X-specific lists was active. Most not in years.

But Debian's X list is thriving. Does that imply that only Debian carries a torch for truly platform- and server-agnostic X Windows?

I didn't check Canonical/ubuntu.

Cheers
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