Re:Xorg being removed. What does this mean?
by jmclnx on Thursday December 14, 2023 @11:27AM
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And it only works on Linux, that is the issue. Porting to other UN*X is a major pain. There is a lot more to the world than Linux.
Also I am sure Wayland will never be ported to AIX, you know, the UNIX used by many large finance companies. BSDs are having a hard time with it due to Linuxisms.
Re:Xorg being removed. What does this mean?
by phone8675309 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @02:13PM
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It used to be all the world is a VAX and now it's all the world is a Linux. So it goes.
That said, how much user facing graphical stuff runs on AIX? That is a genuine question because I don't know and it sounds like you do.
Re:Xorg being removed. What does this mean?
by jmclnx on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:25PM
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Some purchased (3rd party) admin items do, they use motif. We have a couple at work. Some people run these using windows app, I showed people how use Linux years ago.
Re:Xorg being removed. What does this mean?
by Ckirby on Thursday December 14, 2023 @01:38PM
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Ah yes, more excellent work from the generation of programmers took race-conditions and declared it to be the new "asynchronous" programming paradigm
Re:Xorg being removed. What does this mean?
by phone8675309 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @02:14PM
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How long until Wayland is the old thing that we've barely moved on to before the systemd folks subsume the display subsystem?
Sure, you could say the same about IE6.
> Wayland is a broken vanity project by a minor amateur maintainer
Despite its flaws, Wayland is a widely adopted production-ready project made by Xorg maintainers and nearly everyone else who has been seriously working on the graphics stack on Linux in the past 5 years. There is a good chance that Wayland is running in your car's infotainment system.