XLibre
Distro with XLibre and Xenocara vs XLibre #2
Replies: 12 comments 5 replies
-
|
I don't think any distros come with XLibre installed yet, but a few provide it, most notably Artix |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Someone told me there was a distro that specilizes in accesibility features that already has xlibre deployed. I forgot what it was called. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
There are no major distributions that include it yet. That may soon change. It is in several extended directories of major distributions, like ArchLinux in the AUR. Give it time, it will get out there. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
OpenMandriva Cooker (development release) already switched to Xlibre. I think some early ISOs are available with Xlibre. But if xlibre tests will be successfulit, it will go to rolling release soon and to Rock (fixed release) with the next big release. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
As far as I understood from their page, Xenocara is similar to a "Xorg plus patches", not a full-fledged fork. Indeed it is their politics to send patches to upstream. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Wait, someone who works on Ti-92 calculators is trying to get Red Hat to replace its 'in-house' version of X11 with one written by someone they consider a crank? Now that's gonna be fun to watch. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Consider it a test of their actual commitment to Open Source. If they go out of their way to block a fork of an external project (and despite what RH may think, Xorg is an external project) then you know their claims of supporting Open Source may not be all they say. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
I'm curious for a future build of x server as appimage like x.21.2.AppImage that can be start logged as root in a tty with command e.g. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
@probonopd : Very happy to see you here! Probably an inappropriate question, but could there be X11Libre distributions based on Debian? |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Given that XLibre builds already on Ubuntu, I think it should not be too hard to build it on Debian too. Then someone "just" would need to package it for Debian... so yes, I think it can be done but I have no idea whether and when it will be done. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Perfect. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
xenocara can just upstream itself to xlibre |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Artix now offers several XLibre Live ISO images. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Since there is no wiki in the XLibre project, I have created the following page to track the XLibre status in distributions: |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Please have a look at Add overview of the distributions supporting XLibre to the wiki · Issue #301 · X11Libre/xserver. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Things improved quite a lot so please have a look at X11Libre Xlibre On Other Distributions · Discussions · GitHub and it's "surroundings". |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
Uh oh!
There was an error while loading. Please reload this page.
-
Congratulation for this great project.
Do you know if there are distros with build-in X11libre installed?
And does X11Libre follow new feature of the Xenocara project developed by OpenBSD?
I am one of the maintainer of the MSEide-Msegui project, a complete widgetset that use the "traditional" X11 server for his Unix targets.
https://github.com/mse-org/mseide-msegui/
Do you think that we can use X11libre too out-of-the-box or do we need to adapt our code for X11libre?
Thanks.
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
All reactions