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Re: XLibre official support?



Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 07:46:13PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 09:05:09PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > > I'd hope that no Debian Developer wants to get involved with the
> > > XLibre community.
> > > 
> > >     https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XLibreIsExplicitlyPolitical
> > 
> > The title of that blog article is "The XLibre project is explicitly
> > political and you may not like the politics". Lol.
> 
> I think you have stopped reading there and not understood the author's
> point. The author doesn't reject XLibre because it is explicitly
> political, he rejects XLibre because he doesn't like XLibre's politics
> in particular.

I think you have read superficially and not understood Liam at all. In
the comments of another El Reg article about xlibre he says:

Liam Proven

 Re: X11 over network connection

 > For the first 60 years of my life I'd never once needed or used an
 > ambulance. Doesn't mean I was stupid enough to suggest they weren't
 > needed by others.

 Good for you. My first time on life-support, I was 27.

 Anyway, I can't tell for sure if you are questioning my position or
 endorsing it.

 I strongly agree with you: I do not personally want or use this, but I
 know that it is absolutely critical to lots of people and as such I
 want to see it remain.

 Wayland offers me nothing I want except for one (1) feature: different
 (and non-integer) scaling factors on different monitors. That is the
 _only_ thing it does that I want, and if the price of admission is
 using GNOME or KDE Plasma then I don't want in thanks. I will stay
 outside.

And on X he recommends this article:

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/xlibre.html


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