Originally posted by dacresbu
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X/Wayland Is Coming Along Nicely, But Work Is Left
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Wayland doesn't, and will not depend on systemd. XWayland may use systemd in the future, but that doesn't stop you from not using that dependency and manually opening an X server yourself. In other words, I'm sure it'll be an optional dependency, if it's ever depended on at all.
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Originally posted by elanthis View PostHe also has news about Unigine, Valve, and a boatload of other proprietary software.
Open Source advocates generally prefer whatever software does the best job, believing that Open development processes produce better software. The iOS hardware and OS still beat the Android OS (which is also not fully Free) and other OSes hands-down (a bit subjective, yes, I admit), so even if Open Source is better in general, in the specific case of phone OSes the proprietary iOS may (again, somewhat subjectively) still be the better choice for real-world products.
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Originally posted by FireBurn View PostI'm a bit disappointed that Michael - a self proclaimed open source advocate - has an Iphone
Open Source advocates generally prefer whatever software does the best job, believing that Open development processes produce better software. The iOS hardware and OS still beat the Android OS (which is also not fully Free) and other OSes hands-down (a bit subjective, yes, I admit), so even if Open Source is better in general, in the specific case of phone OSes the proprietary iOS may (again, somewhat subjectively) still be the better choice for real-world products.
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Damn. If there was something to make sure even less people want Wayland it's making it depend on systemd.
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I'm a bit disappointed that Michael - a self proclaimed open source advocate - has an Iphone
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Originally posted by peppepz View PostWill wayland be FULLY backward-compatibile with X11, a drop-in replacement, or should we rather expect some degree of compatibility with well-behaved applications unless they rely on API x or depend on some behaviour of API y?
I'm not a big fan of the throwing out of babies with the bath water that sometimes happens in the open source world.
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Will wayland be FULLY backward-compatibile with X11, a drop-in replacement, or should we rather expect some degree of compatibility with well-behaved applications unless they rely on API x or depend on some behaviour of API y?
I'm not a big fan of the throwing out of babies with the bath water that sometimes happens in the open source world.
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actually most problems with video in linux are not inherently because of x.org. they are because the driver's suck. but yeah, I want to go into time and see when linux desktop has a mature audio/video stack.
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