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Message-ID: <66a81d1f@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: X Window System boot stipple Newsgroups: comp.misc References: <6691a266$2$1439836$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <5FudnS1LIdXXJjv7nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk> <v88dkg$hkg7$1@dont-email.me> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 30 Jul 2024 08:52:15 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 28 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Bytes: 1804 John McCue <jmccue@magnetar.jmcunx.com> wrote: > > Right now, I am hoping the BSDs would get together to keep > X current, but I kind of doubt that will happen. What's "current"? The biggest issue would be changes to the operating systems that break old X code, and then obviously that will be easy for the BSDs to fix/avoid because they're the ones making the changes. The other would be compiler changes breaking builds, but again such people working on other big projects shouldn't struggle to tackle that. There's also graphics drivers, but then the X developers didn't have the muscle to keep up with them on their own before anyway, hence the widespread use of proprietary Nvidia drivers. Personally my modest graphics needs are served by the VESA or framebuffer drivers (I'm not sure if the latter exists on BSD), so I don't really care whether X is "current" driver-wise. Perhaps long-term the issue might be whether it's ported to new CPU architectures like RISCV? That's a long way off though, there might even be a replacement for Wayland by then. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#