Red Hat considers Xorg “deprecated” and will remove it in the next RHEL

Re:Red Hat considers Xorg “deprecated” and will remove it in... by George83728 on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:11PM (#35868133)

RHEL itself is deprecated for desktop/workstation use. I last used RHEL in that capacity 10 years ago and even then it was apparent that this was a niche it wasn't well suited for.

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Re:Red Hat considers Xorg “deprecated” and will remove it in... by slondr on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:15PM (#35868169)

Will this affect Fedora or other red hat universe distros?

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Re:Red Hat considers Xorg “deprecated” and will remove it in... by George83728 on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:24PM (#35868255)

It wouldn't really surprise me if Fedora followed suite soon, but I have no specific information about that. Hopefully OpenSUSE Tumbleweed keeps X, I haven't heard any indication to the contrary.

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Re:Red Hat considers Xorg “deprecated” and will remove it in... by emrvb on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:44PM (#35868441)

I'm not entirely sure, but I'm under the impression that my tumbleweed installation lost X11 months ago and is Wayland only now.

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Re:Red Hat considers Xorg “deprecated” and will remove it in... by George83728 on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @09:37AM (#35874116)

X is still in Tumbleweed, maybe it's not the default anymore but it's still here.

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Re:Red Hat considers Xorg “deprecated” and will remove it in... by itsmartapuntocm on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:43PM (#35868423)

Fedora defaulted to Wayland quite a while ago. But Fedora doesn’t necessarily always follow Red Hat. RHEL deprecated and removed btrfs support, while Fedora now uses it by default.

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Re:Red Hat considers Xorg “deprecated” and will remove it in... by slondr on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:58PM (#35868555)

> RHEL deprecated and removed btrfs support

Wait, what?? Is that true?

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Re:Red Hat considers Xorg “deprecated” and will remove it in... by em-bee on Monday May 08, 2023 @08:30PM (#35868800)

yes, head to stop using CentOS and switch to Debian for my servers because of that

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Re:Red Hat considers Xorg “deprecated” and will remove it in... by itsmartapuntocm on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @11:40AM (#35876065)

Was deprecated in 7 and removed in 8.

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Re:Red Hat considers Xorg “deprecated” and will remove it in... by sprash on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:32PM (#35868326)

The target audience for RHEL desktop/workstation use is government employees. Those people are not supposed to use the computer beyond a narrow scope of tasks. Creativity, self-responsibility, individuality and out-of-the-box thinking is discouraged. Wayland is perfectly suited for that.

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