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The 2013 "State of X.Org" report

The 2013 "State of X.Org" report

Posted Feb 26, 2013 21:51 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: The 2013 "State of X.Org" report by nix
Parent article: The 2013 "State of X.Org" report

the kinder reception is great then... and perhaps a point in front of Linux kernel then.

But why not "imitate" the rest ? .. perhaps it could have more than 1 point in front of linux kernel, imitating its "modus operandi".


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The 2013 "State of X.Org" report

Posted Feb 27, 2013 18:03 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I don't understand how you could expect the X server to 'imitate' Linux's architecture of a complicated core and relatively simple drivers. An X server simply does a different job: it's not going to have that architecture any more than, say, a compiler would. You can't "just" totally rearchitect software without reimplementing it completely anyway (which is, surprise, what Wayland is doing).

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