Another thing to consider about Wayland is that it can be viewed as another Red Hat (IBM) trojan horse to try to influence the direction and development of open source software.
On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM Emiel Kollof <em...@kollof.nl> wrote: > Roderick schreef op 2025-06-15 14:53: > > Some Linux distributions are substituting Xorg with wayland, > > Xorg self seems to aim to obsolete x11, > > and there is now a questionable fork that probably will not lead to a > > success: > > > > https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver > > Questionable? That remains to be seen. Some linux distributions are > picking this > up and packaging it (devuan being the latest). If only for the sole > reason that > it's not under control of FDO and Red Hat, who seem to actively want to > kill Xorg > or X11 altogether. Also, it will avoid politics, everyone is welcome. > This is > more in line with OpenBSD's netiquette. > > Yes, X11 is not perfect as you state, but it works, and it "does the > thing". > > > Could xenocara become the continuation of x11? > > I think it should be considered, since this fork is maintained and will > accept > xenocara patches. They also recently removed systemd dependencies and > also > decoupled XWayland from the project. Those are useful changes, unless > you think > OpenBSD should adopt systemd or that elogind monstrosity? (yes, that's > tongue > in cheek) > > Cheers, > Emiel > >
