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Red Hat Expecting X.Org To "Go Into Hard Maintenance Mode Fairly Quickly"

Discussion in 'Linux' started by Muhamad_Faizol, Jun 28, 2019.

  1. Muhamad_Faizol

    Muhamad_Faizol

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    https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Maintenance-Mode-Quickly

    "A Phoronix reader pointed out the significance of one the statements in that blog post, which I hadn't explicitly called out. So in case you didn't read that blog post about Fedora Workstation 31, Red Hat's Christian Schaller says it's their belief that X.Org will soon be going into "maintenance mode" in favor of Wayland. Specifically he said:

    Once we are done with [their Wayland improvements] we expect X.org to go into hard maintenance mode fairly quickly. The reality is that X.org is basically maintained by us and thus once we stop paying attention to it there is unlikely to be any major new releases coming out and there might even be some bitrot setting in over time. We will keep an eye on it as we will want to ensure X.org stays supportable until the end of the RHEL8 lifecycle at a minimum, but let this be a friendly notice for everyone who rely the work we do maintaining the Linux graphics stack, get onto Wayland, that is where the future is."