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Xenocara may not satisfy performance characteristics the way something like Wayland is. However, Xenocara is pretty awesome in (I believe) being the only X11 se
by peatmoss 10y ago
Xenocara may not satisfy performance characteristics the way something like Wayland is. However, Xenocara is pretty awesome in (I believe) being the only X11 server to address the somewhat ugly security model of stuff running as root.
- krakensden 10y agoI think most of the popular Linux distributions have been shipping rootless x11 for a few years now, too. Kernel Mode Setting was the big watershed feature.
- peatmoss 10y agoInteresting, I hadn't known that. Canonical's site indicates that there's some nuance there depending on the video card model though: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Rootless https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Rootless Also interesting is that support for rootless (at least in Arch) depends on, or perhaps was facilitated by systemd: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Rootless_Xorg_.28v1.16.29 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Rootless_Xorg_.28v... I don't pay as close attention to Linux developments as I should these days!
- elchief 10y agoOpenBSD and performance are acquaintances, but not really close friends :)