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Re:Wayland Is Growing Up. and Now We Don't Have a Choice by Ezhik on Friday June 20, 2025 @08:55AM (#44327263)
What's XLibre? Are they taking Linux desktop accessibility more seriously?
Re:Wayland Is Growing Up. and Now We Don't Have a Choice by resoluteteeth on Friday June 20, 2025 @09:01AM (#44327303)
It's a fork of x.org that's trying to keep actively developing it more than the x.org developers are interested in doing (because they are working on wayland and see x.org as basically obsolete). That in itself is a reasonable goal but given the person responsible for it I would not be too optimistic about it.
Re:Wayland Is Growing Up. and Now We Don't Have a Choice by kstrauser on Friday June 20, 2025 @10:01AM (#44327819)
From their readme:

> Together we'll make X great again!

This explains the project in a nutshell.

Re:Wayland Is Growing Up. and Now We Don't Have a Choice by lotharcable on Friday June 20, 2025 @09:19AM (#44327489)
XLibre is a fork of Xorg X11's codebase started by a developer who got kicked out of the Xorg project because he was making lots of changes that broke everything and had a hard time getting along with the other devs.

Another dev blindly applied his MRs assuming he had tested stuff before submitting the request and they had to go back and revert a bunch of stuff.

Broke nvidia compatibility, broke xrandr extension, and a bunch of other stuff.

Re:Wayland Is Growing Up. and Now We Don't Have a Choice by wizzwizz4 on Friday June 20, 2025 @09:55AM (#44327771)
Don't forget the 1939-era Nazi propaganda about how Hitler's invasion of Poland was just defending Germany, that he posted to the DNG mailing list. https://web.archive.org/web/20190404153507/https://lists.dyn...

> WW2 was forced upon Germany, and the allied rejected all the numerous peace offerings from the German side.

(It goes without saying that there are numerous historical inaccuracies, and outright lies, in here.) Betcha the xlibre discussion forums have some rant about International Jewry.

Edit: the rumourmill says the xlibre Telegram channel has a topic called "Jewish influences in free software". Can anyone confirm this?

Re:Wayland Is Growing Up. and Now We Don't Have a Choice by ThrowOregonAway on Friday June 20, 2025 @10:00AM (#44327813)
Googler, NSA'er, or Red Hatter?
Re:Wayland Is Growing Up. and Now We Don't Have a Choice by LightHugger on Friday June 20, 2025 @01:02PM (#44329717)
This is false, he we the sole person submitting large amounts of code for about a year and was widely praised, until he forked and red hat went nuclear on his account for opposing their corporate goals, he was not kicked out for bad changes or anything of the sort. Trying to revise history on this is malicious.

The people like OA are spreading misinformation because the developer stated everyone was welcome to contribute and would oppose excessive politics. Keep in mind red hat is currently getting sued 3x over for blatantly racist policies which they used to ban other contributors and forced on their managers, they are evil people.

Re:Wayland Is Growing Up. and Now We Don't Have a Choice by bananapub on Friday June 20, 2025 @09:11AM (#44327406)
> What's XLibre?

a fork of X allegedly maintained by an arsehole

> Are they taking Linux desktop accessibility more seriously?

no