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Fedora 43 Change Proposal: X11Libre (system-wide) (discussion.fedoraproject.org)

submitted 2 months ago by DollyDuller@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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A long time has passed since the last major release of the X.Org X11 Xserver. Even bugfix releases have become rare. Therefore, this Change proposes replacing the nearly unmaintained upstream with a maintained fork, the X11Libre XServer.

The upstream maintainer of X11Libre had been the most active remaining contributor to the X.Org X11 Xserver before the fork. The Change Owner is well aware of the controversies around the X11Libre upstream maintainer (FreeDesktop.org CoC violations, controversial political views, conspiracy theories, rants against Red Hat), but believes that the benefit of shipping maintained software outweighs the potential annoyances when having to deal with upstream.

There is no intent to ever replace the Xwayland implementation, only the standalone Xserver and its subpackages (Xnest, Xvfb, Xephyr), and possibly the driver packages (xorg-x11-drv-*).

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[–] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Needless harassment against their own trans community member and overall consistent toxic behavior:
Hyprland BANNED from FreeDesktop: Why.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Goddammit, why can't we have nice things anymore. 😞 Why do people have to be dicks.