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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: killing X11
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:41:43 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:01:55 -0000 (UTC), George Musk wrote:

> Meh. It's more strange that there always was only one display server for
> a lot of free operating systems out there.

Actually there are several implementations of the Wayland protocol. And 
remember that the current Xorg is a fork of XFree86, which in turn was 
derived from the original MIT X11 reference code.

And there are other projects, like Ubuntu was working on something called 
“Mir” before giving up and switching to Wayland.

> But there are thousands of Linux distributions...
> Basically when almost everyone invests into just one system that's what
> you get.

It’s Open Source, so you are free to come up with a new one. Remember 
Wayland has been around for a very long time before rising to prominence, 
because of the immense inertia of all that X11 baggage to overcome. Do you 
have the patience to do the same?