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Clearing Up Wayland FUD, Misconceptions

Posted by Soulskill on from the where-there's-a-will,-there's-a-wayland dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In clearing up common misconceptions about Wayland (e.g. it breaking compatibility with the Linux desktop and it not supporting remote desktops like X), Eric Griffith (a Linux developer) and Daniel Stone (a veteran X.Org developer) have written The Wayland Situation in which they clearly explain the facts about the shortcomings of X, the corrections made by Wayland, and the advantages to this alternative to Canonical's in-development Mir."

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  1. Re:The Manchurian Candidate by Gaygirlie · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have never seen a good argument for this.

    Read the article, then.

  2. Re:The Manchurian Candidate by Microlith · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well he gave an answer in the article: if you move to "fix X", you end up making X12. And when you do that, all the stakeholders in X come out of the woodwork and insist on preserving all the legacy parts of the system that, frankly, don't belong.

    The way things have unfolded, X11 will become a library on top of Wayland. And that's perfectly fine.

  3. Re:The Manchurian Candidate by Sique · · Score: 4, Informative

    It was invented here. A large share of the Wayland developers are ex-X11-developers. They know X11 from the inside.

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    .sig: Sique *sigh*