Re:Xorg being removed. What does this mean?
by gjsman-1000 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @11:24AM
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By itself, it's not a bad thing. When we are shipping extensions for two-button mice in C with no automated testing, fuzzing, or security review, and no mouse has used those extensions in decades, and that until recently ran as root, that's a problem.
Re:Xorg being removed. What does this mean?
by antisol on Saturday December 16, 2023 @10:59PM
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>The fact that you even listed it as an "issue" with Xorg immediately disqualifies you from making any further statements on the issue
Yep.
PSA: If you think not breaking user space is an "issue", please don't ever do anything but non-critical web development.
Xorg is a major fundamental part of the "desktop" part of "Desktop Operating System
The fact that you even listed it as an "issue" with Xorg immediately disqualifies you from making any further statements on the issue
If you think that it's acceptable for a minor software update to break down potentially hundreds of not thousands of office workstations then you are quite frankly insane