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Linux@lemmy.ml · 5 months ago

40 years later, X Window System is far more relevant than anyone could guess

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40 years later, X Window System is far more relevant than anyone could guess

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Linux@lemmy.ml · 5 months ago

One astrophysics professor's memories of writing X11 code in the 1980s.

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Yep that’d be Wayland devs maintaining XWayland, which is part of the x.org codebase. There are no “X11 devs”, they’re the ones who started Wayland to get rid of that bowl of spaghetti!

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