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Wait. wait. wait. There's an Xorg developer's conference still?

There are Xorg developers?

I thought we were told those had gone extinct?

Feb 4 at 6:16amWeb
Show threadprogo in NYCFeb 4
@thelinuxcast will there be presentations about all the unperson's commits they reverted?
Show threadElias ProbstFeb 4

@thelinuxcast despite the nowadays slightly misleading name, it is mostly about Wayland, Mesa, DRM and all the other parts of the graphics stack.

There's also a Fediverse account: @XOrgDevConf

BTW: the extinct Xorg devs are the ones who initiated Wayland - they didn't go extinct, they just migrated to more promising lands 😊

Show threadThorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)Feb 4

@thelinuxcast this post from https://who-t.blogspot.com/2016/01/xorg-project-vs-xorg-foundation.html is old, but explain the different things that X.org can mean (the foundation, the project) and how they relate to #Wayland (and other things around GPU drivers).

Maybe @whot should re-publish it yearly. 😄

Sadly the post does not mention that #Xorg (without a Dot after the X!) is something different (it's the older and once widespread of two popular X-Servers the X.org project publishes these days; the other one is #Xwayland).

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Show threadPeter HuttererFeb 4

@kernellogger @thelinuxcast
it's somewhat answered in this post though: https://who-t.blogspot.com/2023/12/xorg-being-removed-what-does-this-mean.html

:)

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