ood idea. -- Linus
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This happens on my Arch Linux 3.8.11 and I've seen it happen also on
3.9.
X crashing is not good.
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https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cee58483cf56e0ba355fdd97ff5e8925329aa936
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Felipe Contreras
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On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM Alan Coopersmith
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> On 6/21/25 12:49, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > While I appreciate all the discussion that was generated, remember my
> > initial question.
> >
> > At the end of the day somebody needs to do the work in orde
few
questions.
Is there anyone who is going to keep maintaining Xorg indefinitely?
Cheers.
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Felipe Contreras
On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM Alan Coopersmith
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> On 6/7/25 13:19, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > I've often heard that there's only one developer working on Xorg, and
> > apparently not anymore. I want to find out if that's true.
>
> You can eas
On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM Robert Heller wrote:
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> At Mon, 9 Jun 2025 17:13:09 -0600 Felipe Contreras
> wrote:
> > You can list a million reasons why Wayland is superior, but people
> > still use Xorg, and my bet is that's going to continue to be the case
>
7;s going to continue to be the case
for at least a decade, and possibly much more.
So if there are some users that will keep using Xorg, I would expect
there to be some developers that will keep developing Xorg.
But for some reason no one other than Enrico Weigelt has raised their
hand and publicly stated so.
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Felipe Contreras
eep working as it currently does.
So far not a single developer from the Xorg project has stepped up.
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Felipe Contreras
On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM Carsten Haitzler wrote:
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> On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 19:23:02 -0600 Felipe Contreras
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> said:
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> > On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM Robert Heller wrote:
> > >
> > > At Mon, 9 Jun 2025 17:13:09 -0600 Felipe Contreras
> >
* want to do something like take
> over Xorg all on my own.
Taking all of Xorg may be too much, but usually ensuring that
long-standing software keeps working in the foreseeable future doesn't
require much work.
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Felipe Contreras
On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM Robert Funnell wrote:
> On 2025-06-22 11:42, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM Alan Coopersmith
> > wrote:
> >> (Not to mention many of us have employers who require that media contacts
> >>go throu
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM Michel Dänzer wrote:
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> On 2025-06-11 03:53, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM Carsten Haitzler
> > wrote:
> >> well the way it used to work back in the 80's and 90's is ... this
> >> is wh
On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM Vladimir Dergachev
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> On Fri, 4 Jul 2025, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > I would like that to be the case, because I have told many Wayland
> > advocates that there's multiple Xorg developers committed to the
> > project, because I
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