Fedora moving to wayland

[Richard Pieri]

On Nov 15, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Jon Masters wrote:
> 
> Yes, but it's also a standard provided by many other UNIX and Linux
> platforms. If we in the Linux space continue down the path of

This is a myth.  Every[1] commercial UNIX vendor has added proprietary extensions to their X servers over the years, extensions that their branded applications use.  These applications don't work on anybody else's X servers because they don't have these extensions.  SGI was most egregious in this, but all of the big names have done it.  X is not the universal, portable, works everywhere system we'd like to pretend that it is.

On the flip side, pretty much everything these days groks OpenGL ES at a minimum, and Wayland's compositor now speaks OpenGL ES to the frame buffer.  And as has been noted on several occasions, Wayland is perfectly capable of hosting X servers.  X.Org running on Wayland.  Everybody wins.  Like I said.


[1]Apple is the only exception that I can recall.  Apple's X servers for OS X are vanilla XFree86 (up to 10.4) and X.Org (10.5 and forward).

--Rich P.