The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland (Phoronix)

Posted Jun 10, 2013 15:08 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland (Phoronix) by dig
Parent article: The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland (Phoronix)

> Too many promises... X isn't easy peace of software, especially the one to emulate it on totally different concepts Wayland uses. Only the future will tell...

You don't know much about X then.

X11 runs perfectly well on many operating systems besides Linux. Windows and OS X are both examples that are supported by Xorg's Xservers. In fact one of the biggest contributors to Xorg is Apple and they use that code directly in their X11 related Apple products.

I find it extremely unlikely that Wayland will be much harder to support then Windows or OS X is.

In fact how Wayland is designed it should simplify the functionality of Xservers for Linux massively.

The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland (Phoronix)

Posted Jun 10, 2013 15:33 UTC (Mon) by alankila (guest, #47141) [Link] (3 responses)

Hm. What X11 related products do Apple have now? They aren't even shipping an X server anymore.

The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland (Phoronix)

Posted Jun 10, 2013 16:26 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (2 responses)

Apple ships X server as a separate download. I'm using it extensively to run wireshark.

The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland (Phoronix)

Posted Jun 10, 2013 16:46 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

Yep, http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5293

There isn't many people clamoring for X11 support in any OS except Linux (or the BSDs), but it does exist.

The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland (Phoronix)

Posted Jun 11, 2013 22:49 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

X servers with few applications, how come?

Because these servers are useful to run applications remotely of course.