Xlibre [LWN.net]

Xlibre

Posted Jun 10, 2025 20:06 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Xlibre by ubhofmann
Parent article: Ubuntu 25.10 to drop support for GNOME on Xorg

I wonder if it would end up in the Tauthon-like state, with one commit per year (to make it compatible with a new GCC) and nothing beyond that…

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Posted Jun 11, 2025 21:00 UTC (Wed) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648) [Link] (2 responses)

So what if it does? There's nothing wrong with software that's finished and therefore needs little maintenance :)

Posted Jun 11, 2025 21:05 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (1 responses)

Not if we are talking about software that needs to interact with hardware.

If you want something that may only ever work on retro systems you may simply pick Windows XP or RedHat 9…

Posted Jun 12, 2025 18:53 UTC (Thu) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648) [Link]

Almost all of the hardware-specific graphics code is in the kernel these days :)

Posted Jun 12, 2025 5:34 UTC (Thu) by alexeiz (guest, #95579) [Link] (1 responses)

metux submitted like a thousand commits to Xorg over the last several years. So one commit a year scenario is just your imagination.

Posted Jun 15, 2025 13:31 UTC (Sun) by RGBCube (subscriber, #175223) [Link]

metux submitting a thousand patches can only make the (already horrible) X codebase even worse!