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If the XLibre project appears to be making enough fairly-consistent progress for you to be comfortable tossing around some cash, then do gather up some likemind
by simoncion 9mo ago
If the XLibre project appears to be making enough fairly-consistent progress for you to be comfortable tossing around some cash, then do gather up some likeminded folks to hire a dev to follow the guidance here [0] and help out!
Do note that I've never tried to croudfund a programmer, but that's something that I have to believe is possible to do.
[0] <https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver?tab=readme-ov-file#i-want-to-help https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver?tab=readme-ov-file#i-wan...>
- pantalaimon 9mo agoGiven that all their patches were reverted in upstream X11 due to quality issues [0], I wouldn't put too much trust into that project. [0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Lots-Of-Reverts https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Lots-Of-Reverts
- simoncion 9mo agoGiven that FDO [0] has been screaming about how Xorg is dead and Wayland is (despite plenty of evidence to the contrary) ready for everyone and every use case for the past like ten+ years, I remain somewhat wary about their opinions regarding Xorg development. Maybe XLibre will be a damn trainwreck, or maybe it'll be to xorg what xorg was to XFree86. I intend to find out through the testimony of users of XLibre. [0] ...or maybe just a very vocal subset of the folks at FDO...