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This week at LWN: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

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Keith Packard has been working on the X window system since the early days, but more recently has been doing lots of work to enable its replacement. X has long held the position as the way that graphics is done on Linux (and other Unix) systems, but that is changing. He came to the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, which was held April 3-5 in San Francisco, to talk about the Wayland protocol and the Weston server, and how they could interoperate with X. Wayland looks to be an interesting change for desktop graphics on Linux. Wayland is an alternative window system, and is part of long-term effort to integrate more modern technology into the Linux desktop. But there are lots of existing X applications out there that need a migration path so that they don't have to be rewritten. That's part of the plan too, Packard said.

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Comments (6)

caitlyn ·
My main concern is that they don't drop support for too many legacy graphics cards and chipsets. I tend to keep my hardware until it dies of old age so long as it remains somewhat useful.
Jeff91 ·
My main concern is a lack of support for modern graphics cards from commercial vendors. If I can't have nvidia graphics drivers on my system it is fairly useless.

~Jeff
Koriel ·
Me too, I only have one modern graphics card and it sucks on Linux (ATI 5770) so relegated it to a Windows machine, the rest are all old Nvidia the oldest being a GF6800 and youngest a GF7300. Will be investing in some new Nvidia cards next year as im done with AMD/ATI cards.
ComputerBob ·
Sheesh, I didn't realize how far behind my hardware is -- all three of my PCs use a GF6600 - and they all work perfectly fine with Debian Sqeeze's Nouveau drivers (I don't use any 3D).
Fettoosh ·
Fear not guys and gals, I don't believe X-server is going away any time soon.

Jeff91 ·
Ha! I've got an nVidia 260GTX and that is considered fairly old tech by most gaming standards ;)

That being said I enjoy Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 as my games of choice these days.

~Jeff

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