On Mon, Dec 08, 2025 at 03:46:22AM -0000, b b wrote: > Xorg has been working for over 40 year, Wayland has been mulfunctioning for > 20 years, if there is something old that needs to be replaced that's Wayland.
"Xorg" has only been around for about 20, but the very fact that it was
created (ie a hostile fork from XFree86, one of numerous competing X
server implementations of various quality/completeness) shows that
things were not, in fact, "working". Even putting that aside, for about
30 of those 40 years, "working" required a considerable amount of
per-installation elbow grease and goats blood.
Nevermind that a significant contributor of the relative stability of
the last decade of Xorg's existance being relatively solid is thanks to
a great deal of (pre-Xorg and post-Xorg) investment by Red Hat.
> And yes, people will fork and are forking (h/t Kevin), the only thing
> RedHat managed to kill until now is their own reputation.
The beauty of F/OSS is it can't be "killed".
...but it can die because nobody gives enough of a damn to work on it
[for free] any more. Which is where we are today.
- Solomon
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