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Wayland Isn't Ready For the Fedora 24 Desktop (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on from the anticipation-is-killing-me dept.

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.

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  1. Solution in search of a problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    What unsolved problem does Wayland address?

    No one has any difficulty securely running GUIs across networks.

  2. Problems? X over ssh is sloooow, insecure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The X protocol is not in line with how modern graphics is handled, this precludes good compression on X over ssh and also forces a lot of unnecessary complexity which is bad for security. Although I would be happier if they had just called it X12 an update that included dumping some of the old stuff in the core of the old protocol was necessary, now that they have decided to include network "transparency" equivalent functionality (single window tunnelling over ssh) and select+middle click paste the rest of it just looks like clean-up.

  3. Re: How have Windows and OS X been better? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Holy fuck Macs are expensive jokes? What the fuck year is this? OS X is free and runs on Intel now dumbass.