• jarfil@beehaw.org
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    X.org - stable release 29 March 2023

    You may be thinking of XFree86 (est. 1991) or X11 (est. 1984).

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      No, I’m thinking of Xorg. The development on it has slowed to less than a crawl, and not because it’s feature-complete. It’s unmaintainable, and hell to manage for anyone that’s not a senior Xorg developer.

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        What features is it missing? They started decoupling GPU drivers from the X server a long time ago (about a decade), that’s why Linux has DRM, and what enabled making Wayland. At this point the only feature needed of Xorg, is a compatibility layer between X clients and Wayland.