X.Org Server 1.13 Released With Massive Changes

[MartinN]

Refreshing!

It is very refreshing, humbling to see the X & Wayland developers creating a future for the Linux desktop.... Inspiring, to say the least. We need this kind of unity on the Linux distro end - focus on 2-3 distributions at most, instead of having so many.

[Gentoo]

Someone said tear-free video is not possible with X, but that it is possible with Wayland.

Yes , its posible with X , Catalyst has tearfree option in his control panel and nvidia too , i use opensource ati driver and it dont apreciate tearing playing games or watching movies.

[uid313]

Wayland again ??? Seems Phoronix love it i dont see any advantages at the moment for this eyecandy

Someone said tear-free video is not possible with X, but that it is possible with Wayland.

[Gentoo]

Wayland again ??? Seems Phoronix love it i dont see any advantages at the moment for this eyecandy

[sstp]

"Mother of god" i thought. Here it comes.

Here it comes masking kernel and xorg server with catalyst 12.6 legacy and still lack of usable power management on opensource drivers. But who need this when i have 5 fps gain in last year, right? yea ..

[d2kx]

Ubuntu 12.10 is using Xserver 1.13 so AMD Catalyst will support it soon.

[Gusar]

Yes I thought the whole point of KMS was so X11 could run root-less.

X isn't running as root because of graphics, but because of input handling.

[Lemonzest]

Yes I thought the whole point of KMS was so X11 could run root-less.

[uid313]

Too bad

Too bad AMD are slow in bringing up their driver for latest X.org
Too bad X.org still cant run without superuser root privileges on Linux
Too bad Xwayland wasn't merged yet

Great to see consistent coding style and old legacy code removed.

What's coming in next X.org server release after this?
More legacy code to get removed?

[garegin]

i imagine that debian 7.0 will be the city upon a hill for all x11 unix neckbeards who don't want wayland "crammed down their throats"