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    From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 4 22:46:22 2025
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    Great news!

    The XLibre project has now provided overlays to build XLibre on
    Gentoo systems:

    <https://github.com/X11Libre/ports-gentoo>

    As should be well known, Gentoo is the GNU/Linux "distro" that
    is geared for knowledgeable users.

    In contrast, virtually all other distros are designed for beaten
    lackeys.



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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 5 10:47:32 2025
    On 04.07.2025 22:46 Uhr Farley Flud wrote:

    The XLibre project has now provided overlays to build XLibre on
    Gentoo systems:

    I would be nice if that took over, so X11 will have a future.
    It is just superior to Wayland.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Sat Jul 5 17:55:39 2025
    On Sat, 5 Jul 2025 10:47:32 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:

    On 04.07.2025 22:46 Uhr Farley Flud wrote:

    The XLibre project has now provided overlays to build XLibre on Gentoo
    systems:

    I would be nice if that took over, so X11 will have a future.
    It is just superior to Wayland.

    https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/wayback_wayland_display_server/

    There isn't much to it yet.

    https://github.com/kaniini/wayback/blob/main/wayback.c

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  • From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Mon Jul 7 10:40:44 2025
    On Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:47:32 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:

    On 04.07.2025 22:46 Uhr Farley Flud wrote:

    The XLibre project has now provided overlays to build XLibre on
    Gentoo systems:

    I would be nice if that took over, so X11 will have a future.
    It is just superior to Wayland.


    I don't know what you mean by "will have a future."

    X11 happens to a be a MATURE software project, which means it
    really does not require any constant upgrading of functionality.

    X11 only needs to be occasioanally maintained to accommodate
    new hardware, security fixes, etc.

    On my Gentoo system, there are minor versions of X11 components being
    regularly released.

    Yet the vast majority of GNU/Linux users are completely captivated
    by the mainstream distros who are perfectly willing to throw away
    huge swaths of past software for no good reason other than they
    are not "modern" (in their twisted definition of "modern").

    I want to use FVW3, which is very activley developed, forever
    but FVWM3 won't function with Wayland.

    Furthermore, after 17 years of development (!) Wayland is far
    from being mature or even stable.






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