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Re:Xorg being removed. What does this mean? by jmclnx on Thursday December 14, 2023 @11:27AM (#38643111)
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.

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Re:Xorg being removed. What does this mean? by phone8675309 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @02:13PM (#38645798)
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.

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Re:Xorg being removed. What does this mean? by jmclnx on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:25PM (#38648863)
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.
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