new X11 project

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Chuck Robey <chuckr at telenix.org> wrote:
> [This is my first time running this mail composing tool, tell me if it's
> doing something evil I don't see, ok?]
>
> I just got pointed at a URL, if you haven't, it's most likely worth your
> time to read this;
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xorg_wayland&num=1
>
> It's discussing a new X11 project, going by the name Wayland, a RedHat
> project.  Among it's primary goals is to simplify the server, and since
> making things simpler (and hence more reliable) has been a lifelong primary
> goal of mine, I'm listening.  My goal here, beyond trying to be helpful in
> pointing out something clearly important, is to find out of anyone has done
> any research with a mind towards finding out the ultimate compatibility
> between FreeBSD and this new Wayland.  I'm always worried that a
> Linux-person is going to "innocently" write something that requires us to
> become a Linux lookalike.

OpenBSD folks are working on improvements for X too. You may be
interested on this presentation:

     http://www.openbsd.org/papers/fosdem08-xorg.pdf

> Has anyone got any FreeBSD info on this?  Because, if I get s nice loud shot
> of slicne in answer to this question, I'm going to have to try to fix it.  I
> wonder if it's just something that's going to need porting (my devout wish),
>  or are more extreme measures going to have to be considered?  Just being a
> worry-wart.

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cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life
make clean