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On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:11:05 +0000 (UTC) you corralled some electrons and |
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> Frank Peters posted on Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:36:09 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> > Up and coming, like it or not, from the Freedesktop project is the |
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> > X-Window replacement called Wayland. Gentoo is already involved with |
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> > Wayland although it is still considered experimental. |
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> > My concern is whether or not Wayland will totally supplant X-Window or |
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> > will it exist as an option to X-Window. That is, when Wayland becomes |
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> > finally ready for prime time, will we all be forced to adopt it with no |
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> > alternative or will the standard X-Window also be a choice? |
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> Good question. Note that it can actually be seen as two separate |
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> questions, one in general, and one as it applies to gentoo, specifically. |
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Ahem. Duncan, I was ready to archive this reply: tl;dr, but I'm glad I |
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stuck with it. It's a long read, but I sincerely appreciate your |
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perspective and detailed analysis of the current state of Wayland and |
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dbus/udev. |
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Thanks!. |
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~David |
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> For the general case, from all I've read, all the informed sources seem |
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> to expect the two to coexist together for some time, if I were to guess, |
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> I'd say three years or so minimum, and likely far longer in some distros, |
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> particularly those like gentoo and debian that support platforms running |
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> more than just the Linux kernel and general GNU-based userland. Given |
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> that the BSDs tend to move at a somewhat slower pace than Linux and some |
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> of the wayland technology is currently most developed on Linux, it'll |
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> likely be longer, I'd guess at least five years and very possibly a |
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> decade or more, on them. |
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> ... |
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