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Wayland Isn't Ready For the Fedora 24 Desktop (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: There was much hope that Fedora 24 would be the first major Linux distribution using Wayland by default in place of an X.Org Server, that didn't pan out with Fedora 24 Workstation developers deciding not to use Wayland by default but it will remain a log-in time option. Fedora Wayland has made a lot of progress but functionality like on-screen keyboard, accessibility, remote displays, USB display hot-plugging, and other functionality is incomplete for the Fedora 24 timeline. At least there are many other Fedora 24 features that made it for this next release due out in June. Wayland will turn eight years old this year.
Did you miss Perl 6 hitting 1.0 last year?
I've used Wayland on Fedora on my laptop. Is it perfect? No, but absolutely usable. That's a big upgrade from just a year ago.
Replacing X is a big project. Sometimes it takes a while to generate something good.
I'm not sure anyone has a good model for handling rewrites of massive projects. The experiences of KDE 4.0 and Gnome 3.0 come to mind. Eventually, they were better, but it takes some time with a massive upgrade like that.
The other issue is that User's often have a very good idea of what they don't like. However, bulimic criticism does not help to refine a software product. It just splits the ecosystem. Ultimately the user's need to use their computer, and the new software just isn't ready. So the developer's and user's go in different directions.
Closed source isn't the solution either: with Windows 8, Microsoft split it's ecosystem. Windows 10 hasn't fixed the split (yet).
> From the XFree86 web page:
>> XFree86 Release 4.8.0 is out NOW
>> 4.8.0 release was released on 15 December 2008. Our next full release will
>> be 4.9.0, and is expected to be released in the summer/winter of 2009
[...deletia...]
> How's that working out for you?
In case you missed it, there was an internal revolt inside the XFree86 group, and XFree86 code was forked as Xorg, which is the current implementation. The last person to leave the XFree86 project forgot to turn off the lights.
XFree86 is passed on! This project is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it'd be pushing up the daisies! Its metabolic processes are now history! It's off the twig! It's kicked the bucket, It's shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PROJECT!!
See the current Xorg location http://www.x.org/wiki/ It actually has stuff from late last month, rather than late last decade.
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user