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ajaxnwnk
6y ago
> (And I bet Xwayland will eventually be deprecated and unsupported, except for Red Hat's government clients or something.) No, sorry. X11 clients are eternal, there's just way too many of them out there that are line-of-busine
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6y ago
Terminology is something X has always gotten a little wrong. The organization is called X.Org. The project is called xserver. It contains several display backends. The one based on the model inherited from XFree86 is called xfree86 in the c
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So. Couple of things. sloccount says xserver is around 370kloc. This isn't counting the drivers outside of the generic KMS support (which, practically speaking, is what you're probably running on anything remotely modern), but ati