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Xlibre is run by a very unstable and shitty person. Pass. Just let xserver die
Not as long as possible replacements aren't platform-independent.
The Change proposal has been withdrawn by the author: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f43-change-proposal-x11libre-system-wide/156330/57
The first comment on the request
For the sake of all of our sanity, I'd really appreciate if FESCo could decide on this one really quickly (e.g. putting out a statement) and avoid what could be a most unpleasant flame-fest on this mailing list.
From what I understand, xorg has fundamental security flaws. How will they remedy this?
Why stick with a dead standard when the rest of the FOSS world has moved on?
What happens when the Linux kernel drops support for xorg? Do they intend to fork an older version of the kernel in order to keep support?
The only way to fix Xorg is to break org. It requires a redesign.
The Xorg devs chose to do that by starting a separate project. The breakage has been in Wayland, now maturing, while Xorg was left stable. Xlibre wants bring this disruption to the X codebase itself.
From what I understand, xorg has fundamental security flaws. How will they remedy this?
They won't. Don't download random shit and if you're worried, run it in Flatpak
What happens when the Linux kernel drops support for xorg? Do they intend to fork an older version of the kernel in order to keep support?
Not really possible, since X11 is only built on top of the kernel's graphical interface (same as Wayland). Even if that wasn't the case, the kernel doesn't delete any code that anybody uses (that's why 30 year old programs still run)
While that's true, but the main issue here is the unavailability of frequent security patches that Fedora now appears to be attempting to solve with X11Libre.