Xlibre, a new fork of the X.org X11 server, announced
Xlibre, a new fork of the X.org X11 server, announced

Xlibre, a new fork of the X.org X11 server, announced

Xlibre, a new fork of the X.org X11 server, announced
Xlibre, a new fork of the X.org X11 server, announced
Based on the README and that article, the founder sounds like he is deep into conspiracy theories and is an anti-vaccine MAGA person.
Not to downplay the problems on xorg and I am happy it's getting forked, but wtf is up with "No DEI" "Make X great again" in the README... Doesn't convince me at all that this project is going to stay intact and upkept on the long term.
Edit: added some words
Edit2: yeah okay, he's a complete nutjob and a shitty person. See link below
How the fuck you gonna enforce "no dei"? You gonna demand every contributer is white, male, Christian and cishet?
Damn. As a German! That's shameful. And of course utterly nuts.
I found this question on reddit with a really good reply, if someone's interested:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230605123206/https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/58doy0/ive_seen_a_number_of_conspiracy_theorists_and/
Sadly, Weigelt does not stand alone in the Linux community. I used to frequent one of the oldest and largest Linux forums, and there were all sorts of crazies. But more importantly, the general tone was more conservative than you'd think. Or rather Libertarian.
FWIW, X.org is Libre already.
And that article does not inspire me to delve deeper into the topic.
For the person that diehard refuses to switch development to Wayland
This would've been great news to hear about if not for the stupid opinion about DEI being included to completely undermine any faith we might've had in the competence or judgement of the person responsible.
@cm0002 Me, I just need a display that works over a network, X does, Wayland does not.
@cm0002 I find it sad that people act this way but honestly, Redhat has always impressed me as being intrinsically evil, perhaps just slightly less evil than the likes of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple, etc, but evil none the less.
I remember the old days of Xfree86 and the fork that became Xorg, so not the first
time through this and I look forward to Xlibre becoming a viable and functional
replacement for Xorg that, unlike Wayland, networks.
Can we just let this shit die already? If you're unsatisfied with Wayland make extensions to the protocol or make a new one.
Why in the fuck are so many people obssessed over a piece of software that contains an entire networking stack and has a security model so bad that it lets literally every application keylog you constantly?
@solardirus @cm0002 Someone already attempted to make Wayland Network, it's called Wayland on Wires, but it just kind of fizzled. Wayland users aren't real Linux users, they're gamers, outcasts from Windows and they really should have stayed there. Xorg users by contrast are people using Linux to do real work, over the network, which is where X shines and Wayland fails outright, so it is good that XLibre exists.
What? I've gotten RDP, VNC, and SPICE working fine on Wayland. And if you need app-level displays then waypipe worked fine the last time I used it. I've been running Proxmox containers with Wayland just fine, too.
Any particular use case that benefits from what Xorg was uniquely capable of networking-wise (network transparency, afaik?) of is quite niche and development effort twoards that end has always reflected that!
I've not been able to find the git or project repo/writeup of "Wayland on Wires". Though i do vaguely feel like I saw it somewhere.
But I suppose me and my ongoing computer science degree and shared family hobby of IT simply hasn't reached Real Linux User levels yet. I must sharpen my Bash Blade for another 1000 years...
Since that's the case, I suppose I must defer to your Infinitely Endless Wisdom as a True Linux User. I beg of thee, answer my Most Piteous Questions...:
@cm0002 Yes I have tried it, I am using Ubuntu 24.04, if I use Wayland, X-forwarding does not work, if I use the Intel Xorg X server, it does.
Good to know some people are still working on X.
Git repo for those who're interested
Is it though?
Hmm
Welp
Seriously though, fuck this guy and his project. Refuse to support it. In fact, use an alt account to introduce subtle bugs and flaws to the codebase if you can. It’s always a good day to fuck with Nazis. And this right here is a project run by a Nazi.
Edit: if anyone dares to whinge about “getting political” with my comment in this community: this is a screencap of the fucking README.MD
. It’s an inherently, overtly political commentary in the project that’s clearly friendly to an authoritarian regime. Fuck all that noise.