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Originally posted by smitty3268 View Post
Because they lack manpower. Releases eat up time and effort, and nobody has the time to deal with them. We're only getting one now because Red Hat wanted it out and they're paying the guy who's doing it.
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Originally posted by Awesomeness View PostThen don't ship your LTS distro before that Xorg release, duh, esp. if your LTS distro defaults to Xorg.## VGA ##
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Originally posted by darkbasic View Post
I don't use Ubuntu but I don't blame them. X.org releases are really too inconstant to rely on them.
I often try out new Ubuntu releases, and I've noticed that on launch they are often quite buggy. The worse bugs are usually gone after some months. So it's probably good practise for end users to wait for the first point release anyway.
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Originally posted by cybertraveler View PostPlus, they can upgrade to X.Org 1.20 during a Hardware Enablement Stack point release. IE 18.04.1 will probably include X.Org 1.20. So it's no biggy.
Yes, it is not a biggy major LTS/enterpsises will have next year. This Ubuntu LTS, Debian 10.... probably even that long awaited RHEL8 Simply because these distros does not push releases without testing it thoroughly.Last edited by dungeon; 04 May 2018, 09:59 AM.
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Originally posted by Awesomeness View PostThen don't ship your LTS distro before that Xorg release, duh, esp. if your LTS distro defaults to Xorg.
You obviously did not even bother to read the article. Most changes are about XWayland.
That makes it a bit more important for sure. But i do still prefer native Wayland over XWayland.
That said, obviously i was exaggerating when i said that hopefully the changes never come... the point i really wanted to make is that i can't wait for Wayland to be mainstream, which finally seems near...
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Originally posted by woebegone View PostForgive the naive question, but will this update allow the playback (or passthrough?) of HDR 2160p video with something like mpv and ffmpeg? I understand that DeepColor is somewhat related to this? If someone could explain I would be very grateful.
Thanks
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Originally posted by Aleksei View Post
Will that improve now that they are switching to Meson?
It will continue along in maintenance mode for decades to come, but there's not going to be any great influxes of developers. Once XWayland settles down and Wayland starts to be used more, there will likely be a lot less need for frequent updates, though.
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