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Re:Some might not see how much work it was to maintain xorg ... by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @04:12PM (#38451390)
I don't think the network thing actually matters; modern Xorg doesn't expose anything to the network by default, and IIRC will actually fight you about trying to do so to the extent that when I wanted to use it that way I ended up using socat to bridge TCP to the local socket.

The general comment about trust and security is true, though; ex. the usual complaints about any X11 application being able to keylog any other (which XACE exists to counter, but since nobody seems to have done so I'm assuming it had problems!?)).

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Re:Some might not see how much work it was to maintain xorg ... by cptskippy on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @04:25PM (#38451520)
> I don't think the network thing actually matters; modern Xorg doesn't expose anything to the network by default...

It matters from the design and architecture perspective. It's foundational underpinnings we're constructed to support remote terminals. That really hasn't been a usecase for a very long time but the core architecture was built with that in mind and the monolithic nature of the code makes it very hard to change that.

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