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| From | Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Wayland vs X |
| Date | 2022-03-11 23:20 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <DZVM5-17v8-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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* 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 wrote: that the X protocol is old and outdated, the X source is largely 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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Re: Wayland vs X Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2022-03-11 13:10 +0100
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Re: Wayland vs X Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2022-03-11 15:10 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2022-03-11 17:40 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-11 21:10 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2022-03-11 23:10 +0100
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Re: Wayland vs X Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-03-11 22:10 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2022-03-11 23:20 +0100
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Re: Wayland vs X Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2022-03-11 23:10 +0100
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Re: Wayland vs X The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-03-11 22:40 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-11 23:00 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-03-11 23:00 +0100
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Re: Wayland vs X <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-12 07:30 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-03-12 13:30 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-12 13:40 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2022-03-12 15:00 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-12 15:10 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-03-13 00:40 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-03-12 21:10 +0100
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Re: Wayland vs X Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-09 12:00 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-03-09 18:20 +0100
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Re: Wayland vs X <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-09 22:00 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-03-09 21:20 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X 황병희 <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> - 2022-03-16 07:00 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-16 08:00 +0100
Re: Wayland vs X Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2022-03-16 08:20 +0100
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