Sujet : Re: killing X11
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 24. Jun 2025, 00:38:46
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Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider
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On 23 Jun 2025 12:56:01 +0100 (BST), Theo wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:39:53 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:
It all starts with a popular toolkit library like QTK. Even if people
don't upgrade X11, if they run a browser, they're on the upgrade
treadmill.
If you try to pull an XFree86, someone will pull an Xorg on you.
They already did:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/new_version_of_xorg_x11/
although unclear how much takeup this will get.
Obviously, if X11 really is still that much loved, it should get a lot of
takeup.
If it doesn’t ... then I guess that proves the Wayland developers’ point,
doesn’t it?
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