Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 17:36:49 -0200 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: "Chuck Robey" <chuckr@telenix.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new X11 project Message-ID: <e71790db0811071136h2d1c4001he1c70098d48db3da@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0E1DCF36-07A1-4A7F-8784-477709445C26@telenix.org> References: <0E1DCF36-07A1-4A7F-8784-477709445C26@telenix.org>
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On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> wrote: > [This is my first time running this mail composing tool, tell me if it's > doing something evil I don't see, ok?] > > I just got pointed at a URL, if you haven't, it's most likely worth your > time to read this; > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xorg_wayland&num=1 > > It's discussing a new X11 project, going by the name Wayland, a RedHat > project. Among it's primary goals is to simplify the server, and since > making things simpler (and hence more reliable) has been a lifelong primary > goal of mine, I'm listening. My goal here, beyond trying to be helpful in > pointing out something clearly important, is to find out of anyone has done > any research with a mind towards finding out the ultimate compatibility > between FreeBSD and this new Wayland. I'm always worried that a > Linux-person is going to "innocently" write something that requires us to > become a Linux lookalike. OpenBSD folks are working on improvements for X too. You may be interested on this presentation: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/fosdem08-xorg.pdf > Has anyone got any FreeBSD info on this? Because, if I get s nice loud shot > of slicne in answer to this question, I'm going to have to try to fix it. I > wonder if it's just something that's going to need porting (my devout wish), > or are more extreme measures going to have to be considered? Just being a > worry-wart. -- cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life make clean
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