* On 2022 11 Mar 15:10 -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > That was exactly what I asked here a few days ago. And I was told that I > was incorrect, that Wayland was simply a better implementation of X. That > the old implementation X.org was still under active development. Showing > that I was mistaken. > > But if you read stuff online on this subject, you read exactly what I > wrote: that the X protocol is old and outdated, the X source is largely > unused at runtime, no real mindshare for X.org among X developers. > > Here's an example of these views from 2021, at linuxiac.org: > "Most of the features that the X Server protocol provided were not used > anymore. Pretty much all of the work that X11 did was redelegated to the > individual applications and the window manager. And yet all of those old > features are still there, weighing down on all of these applications, > hurting performance and security". > https://linuxiac.com/xorg-x11-wayland-linux-display-servers-and-protocols-explained/ > > I'm just trying to find out what the real story is. Keith Packard, a long time X developer, gave a talk at Linux Conf.au[1] in early 2020 about X history and politics[2]. As I recall (it's been two years since I watched it), much of what you wrote above echos Keith's comments. - Nate [1] https://www.keithp.com/blogs/tags/lca/ [2] https://youtu.be/cj02_UeUnGQ -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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