Xorg being removed. What does this mean?

Re:Xorg being removed. What does this mean? by arghwhat on Thursday December 14, 2023 @08:44AM (#38641227)

This is not what whot meant. He meant "bare metal" in that Xorg is the display server talking to your input (evdev) and output devices (drm/kms), rather than running as a rootful or rootless child of another display server as is the case with Xwayland or Xephyr.

A "bare metal" display server can run in VMs, or even in containers (although the latter is a little pointless as the device access violates sandbox safety).

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Re:Xorg being removed. What does this mean? by cassianoleal on Thursday December 14, 2023 @02:47PM (#38646302)

Thanks, this is an interesting point-of-view, and thinking back and re-reading the article, it seems you're right.

I'll have to say though, I find that particular definition of bare metal quite strange.

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Re:Xorg being removed. What does this mean? by arghwhat on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:14PM (#38648752)

It's also a bit of a weird thing to describe. Native? Master? Normal?

"Nested" is more or less the de-facto term in Wayland-land for the child scenario (pretty much all Wayland display servers natively support a rootful child mode either as real feature or for testing/debugging, some even under X), but there isn't really a good word for the normal case.

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