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I don't think any of the Wayland developers worked on X before RedHat became an essential sponsor to X.org which is, in essence, finished software. What's the
by FandangoRanger 6y ago
I don't think any of the Wayland developers worked on X before RedHat became an essential sponsor to X.org which is, in essence, finished software.
What's the function of the X.org maintainers now? Mainly merging drivers. It's been like this for over a decade, heck back in the old days several bold moves were made for network transparent 3D acceleration with X.org including working patches but it was never realized.
With everybody else going their own way, it might be time to revisit and reinvigorate these efforts.
- Jasper_ 6y agoSure they did -- the old guard of Daniel Stone, Peter Hutterer, Adam Jackson, even Kristian Hoegsberg, they were all Xorg hackers before Wayland was a thing, and only a few had ever worked at Red Hat. X.org doesn't really have maintainers, ever since Adam Jackson stepped away as release manager a few years ago. Alan Coopers it merges security patches, but most device driver support is handled in the lower levels now.
- washbear 6y agothe core difference now is that Sun and tens of other unix vendors are dead so there's less competing commercial influences to the Linux crowd involved in maintaining this stuff. note that Alan Coopersmith is paid by Oracle to work on Solaris.