Xorg-Server 26.0.99.901

throw0101d 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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):

* https://www.xquartz.org/releases/index.html

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egorfine an hour ago | parent [-]

omg, it's been over a decade since I have last used XQuartz. Did they finally open source the whole quartz-wm?

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throw0101d an hour ago | parent [-]

> An XQuartz installation consists of many individual pieces of software which have various licenses. The X.Org software components’ licenses are discussed on the X.Org Foundation Licenses page.[1] The quartz-wm[2] window manager included with the XQuartz distribution uses the Apple Public Source License Version 2.[3]

* https://www.xquartz.org/index.html

	▲	panzi an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Just looked it up, that Apple license is indeed approved as open source/free software by the FSF and OSI!
	▲	egorfine 31 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Ah, I can see that the binary blob is not needed anymore. Nice.

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tyzoid 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Isn't most of this already in xlibre?

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nazgulsenpai an hour ago | parent [-]

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.

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tomstockmail 28 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Xorg has had releases for years and will continue to do so. But as you can see in the announcement, enterprise users are the driving factor.

	▲	nazgulsenpai 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, but they haven't added any features in years, from what I assumed to be a maintenance only/feature frozen stance in favor of Wayland, which is (primarily) why xlibre forked.

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abenga 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Even xfce will one day move to Wayland.

	▲	wing-_-nuts 10 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		With a project as user/dev hostile as wayland, it's much better to be a 'last mover' than first. For the life of me, I'll never understand how wayland got traction with the community. 'Hey guys, we decided to implement a display server from scratch! We broke a ton of existing functionality and made a ton of low level stuff that X used to handle the responsibility of WM/DE devs!'
	▲	boudin 34 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		There's already and experimental support no?
	▲	nazgulsenpai 37 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And I'll be there.

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kobbs 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Intel modesetting driver with tearfree support in a xorg release!