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Wayland/Weston Gets Forked As Northfield/Norwood

Posted by timothy on from the same-number-syllables dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Weeks after Canonical announced Mir, Wayland's display server protocol and Weston compositor have been forked. A contributor to Wayland found differing views with the project over desktop eye candy and other technical decisions to the X11 successor, which resulted in forming the Northfield and Norwood projects. The developer, Scott Moreau, has been outted from the project but has provided a lengthy explanation why the fork was needed to advance the Linux desktop."

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  1. Help, I'm being triggered! by l0ungeb0y · · Score: 0, Troll

    You said "forked"!!!! Why does this sight have to be so offensively sexist?
    We need Valerie Aurora and Adia Richards to come to the rescue!

    1. Re:Help, I'm being triggered! by Entropius · · Score: 0, Troll

      (or vagina)

    2. Re:Help, I'm being triggered! by epyT-R · · Score: -1, Troll

      yes, those poor women so 'empowered', yet so oppressed by a simple joke.. the answer to this paradox is to jail every bloke.

  2. Re:Just what we need... by jameshofo · · Score: -1, Troll

    No... just go sit in the corner and try not to fuck up trolling somewhere else too. In fact, find a dr. Sues book that should help you understand the duplicity of eggs and ham when colored green. It will blow your mind.

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