Xlibre fork lights a fire under long-dormant X.org development

  • from phoronix:

        Noted changes with XLibre 25.0 include:
        a) Xnamespace extension: a novel approach for isolating clients from different security domains (eg. containers) into separate X11 namespaces, where they can't hurt each other
    
    that seems significant, I wonder why xorg hasn't implemented something like it so far.

  • this has been marked as a duplicate before, but it's not. other articles are talking about the Xlibre project it's potential, etc.

    this article talks about the effect of the fork on Xorg itself. which is a very different topic, and one that is worth talking about.

    for example i remember the fork of GCC and how it affected its development processes. unlike GCC i doubt that Xlibre will be merged back, but it has an influence on Xorg nonetheless. what are your thoughts?

  • Was hoping this would go by unnoticed.

    This dude is a hopeless weirdo, who mindlessly refactors for no real reason, and breaks stuff.

    The insane conspiracy minded anti-big tech aspect is deeply disturbing. Replying to some of the most respectable food hard working nice people on the planet who have carried huge X subsystems forward for decades with love and care with just frothing madness. There aren't words for the scorn this insanity & batshit deserve.

    This comment and first reply have some solid other discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303328

    I frelling love the reg, love me a good rag. It was intensely intensely disappointing to see they carrying so much water for this deeply problematic antisocial troublemaker.

  • Related:

    Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44302650

    The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre)

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44199502