How many resources for professional graphics [LWN.net]

How many resources for professional graphics

Posted Jun 16, 2025 9:55 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: How many resources for professional graphics by raven667
Parent article: Ubuntu 25.10 to drop support for GNOME on Xorg

> here is no Sun trying to sell SunRay terminals that depend on [X11]

Pretty sure SunRay actually used its own protocol - not X11.

SunRay long predated standardisation on X11 across Unix workstations. Talking more the Sun SparcStation days when X11 became standard.

How many resources for professional graphics

Posted Jun 17, 2025 1:36 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

Sure the wire protocol for a SunRay wasn't X11, because it wasn't suitable for remote display even then, but there wouldn't have been applications to run on a SunRay without a local X server that could output to the SunRay protocol, much like how you could run a Wayland compositor which outputs to RDP and runs Xwayland for local apps. The apps didn't natively speak SunRay, so Sun invested in the X11 ecosystem with GNOME and StarOffice to make their product useful. While GNOME and KDE and COSMIC and LibreOffice and Firefox all exist today and are maintained by amazing volunteers, I don't see any vendor with the same kind of urgency putting effort into Wayland and accessibility to dot all the 'i's and cross all the 't's