Count us (OpenMandriva) in – our plan is to support both X11 (XLibre – we’ve already switched Cooker (our development branch) over to it, and aside from some issues with the mouse cursor, it works great - writing this in Plasma 6 running on XLibre.
- bero
This is good news!
When I first saw this post, I was ecstatic. OpenMandriva Lx truly is the present and the future. I am more than happy to support XLibre and will certainly will be using XLibre in the long term future.
Absolutely, this is wonderful news. I don’t anticipate a perfect system, but I don’t want a one-windowing-system environment anymore than I want a one-web-engine internet. From the coverage from Lunduke, if it is to be believed that fixes to x11 were just blocked and not implemented because “we’re all moving to wayland suckas” (my jestful words), then I look forward to xLibre with bated breath.
A few years ago, I read a book called “The Rise of Endymion” which championed the idea of “choose again.”
OM is to be applauded for giving people a choice, a choice to avoid, to the best of our ability, hateful authoritarians who like to throw their weight around. I truly believe that OM is at the heart of a budding ecosystem of SW that truly values freedom, and the more I read from the community here, the more that belief is reinforced. People are getting more and more fatigued with violent, ban-happy ideologues.
Xlibre is on start , be very careful this is a beta
We have xlibre in cooker since some time now 
Yep, it’s in cooker for testing as much as possible.
Feel free to try and give some feedbacks, or some inputs where needed if you can.
I’m trying to decide if the detractors of Xlibre will ignore this release in the hopes that it goes away, or go out of their way to find reasons to give it a negative review. I’m leaning towards the second option as that will generate more views and big corporate approval for the tech world’s pseudo journalists.
Dan Simmons great writer, read his books, including all four Hyperion books.
XLibre didn’t work PERFECTLY in its first release, therefore it’s bad and dumb GYATTZEE software.
This comment looks fitting to the Linux is toxic topic 
Looks like the people at GNOME have gone right off the deep end over this:
If that’s what they actually say in public, imagine how toxic it must be there.
It’s probably beyond the appropriate scope of this forum so I will leave it at this. There are certain mentally unstable people out there who are so psychologically programmed/damaged that they will never be satiated until they actually face the wall in a gulag at the end of their self-fulfilling prophecy. Its kind of like suicide by cop but much longer & drawn out.
Given the sort of rhetoric they spout, I’d say its a safe bet that they’re hoping to put all their detractors up against the wall or in a Gulag.
If I ever acting irrationally and foaming at the mouth like that, please take me out back like was done with Old Yeller.
He nuked the blog post, hoping that no one noticed his crashout. Unfortunately for him, there is this little pesky thing called Archive.today so it’s forever immortalized: archive(dot)ph/qyPJ6
It must have been too far for Red Hat and they placed a call. Only money could cause that rapid of a course correction.
What in the world happened? Now forking software is a political statement? I left OSX and Windows because of the controlling nature of those OS. The Linux distros most affected are the most corporate ones it seems. Why is that? Certain hiring policies? A lot of the people who work on those distros are volunteers too so it’s not all about employment or money. Do I really need to switch to TempleOS just to avoid all this damned screaming?
Anyways, X11 does things that Wayland can’t do that some software depends on. Seems like a good idea to at least merge security patches. It does seem like planned obsolescence when you look at the way it’s being maintained.
Also, Linux has how many sound systems? ALSA, Pulse, PipeWire, JACK to name a few and I’ve had systems with all of them at once! Would the pitch forks come out if someone forked Pulse?
Considering the arrogant attitudes the Wayland developers and their ever-obedient followers have had towards anything that isn’t wholesale advocacy of it, you can’t help but see them having questionable agendas. How often did you see them rejecting even the merest question about “how will Wayland handle (some particular X11 function)” with hostile dismissal, effectively saying you were stupid to even be asking t he question. If you didn’t grovel before them as super gods of computing you were less than scum.
Even if Wayland is technically superior (if it is can be argued to no end), until it reaches feature parity to X11 it can never be a drop-in replacement, and with the attitude of the Wayland choir it intentionally never will.
After reading his “deleted” blog post that is currently camping out on the Internet archive, it is a pretty safe bet to conclude that if he was a diesel engine, he needs to go into the shop for a complete rebuild. One of those big rebuilds that takes a long time.
Forget computers, software, operating systems, and so on. People who think like that are not safe for society. They scream about free speech, yet are always first in line to silence anyone who disagrees with them. He all but demanded government action be taken against anyone who is in complying with his agenda.
There is another thing people like him don’t understand, and that is screenshots. Anyone who did see that post has enough sense to quickly take a screenshot before it is taken down, guaranteeing a massive number of copies.
It will be very interesting to see where someone who is that mentally unstable goes next.
Sieg Heil?
My opinion, of course.
How long can I expect before Xlibre leaves the cooker repo and gets into Rock repo?
Or alternately, is there a way to test it on Rock from the cooker repo without messing up stuff?
