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- Out of the loop and this is definitely off topic, but what happened to the Xfree86 project? Is Xorg the same? The venerable xfree86config program is gone from the distrib so I assume it is not the same.by unixhero
- XFree86 died a long time ago. X.org is its replacement.
There was a bunch of infighting as well as a dispute over license changes. People just abandoned it.
by BeetleB - I'll wait to pick up the XLibre version of this with the correct patches.by vkaku
- Duplicate functionality compared to XLibre was reimplemented here from scratch, or sourced from XLibre?
- At least one was looks like it was sourced from XLibre: https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/pull/1314by saelthavron
- Pulling good ideas from downstream forks is actually kind of what open source is all about, isn't it?by thesuitonym
- Note that Enrico Weigelt is the "XLibre" guy and some of his fixes made it into this release, you can search for his name in the message.by shrubble
- I used to run xorg and wayland together and switch between them because you know you setup xorg no matter what even if you daily drive wayland. Since 2024 or so however I don’t remember opening a xorg session.by sbinnee
- Isn't most of this already in xlibre?by tyzoid
- People have all kind of opinions about xlibre as a project and the politics around it that I'm not interested in, but if they're driving xorg to improve, that's a good thing.
I'm not some anti-wayland zealot but you will pry xfce out of my cold dead hands.
by nazgulsenpai - Intel modesetting driver with tearfree support in a xorg release!by kobbs
- Hoorah! Hopefully big distros will at least offer an optional upgrade to this.
I'm all for people switching to wayland but there should be choice and xorg should not be neglected for ideological reasons.
by jck86 - This is a much more substantial changelog than I was expecting for something that is often presented as a deprecated project.by Narishma
- It basically is a deprecated project.by qwertox
- Redhat stands to lose their defacto control over X after the XLibre fork so they have to stop trying to kill it. Who would have thought that competition would make things better for everyone?by noosphr
- The mention of XQuartz (for macOS) reminded me to check that, and 2.8.6 was released mid-July:
* https://www.xquartz.org/releases/bare/XQuartz-2.8.6.html
Previously 2.8.5 was out in 2023:
* https://www.xquartz.org/releases/bare/XQuartz-2.8.5.html
There's a XQuartz 2.8.7 beta as well (xorg-server 26.1 rebase):
by throw0101d - omg, it's been over a decade since I have last used XQuartz. Did they finally open source the whole quartz-wm?by egorfine
- Hooray! A new release of Xorg is always a good reason to celebrate. Long live the all-singing all-dancing feature-rich network-transparent display system which is still the best (and often only) solution for a lot of common user needs, even 39 years after its creation.by ToyKeeper
- Well, Quartz is okay too, even though it lacks network transparency.
Arcan is looking like a very promising successor to the X protocol and Xorg server. It's not there yet, but it gets closer year after year.
by ux266478