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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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[Video] Red Hat Is About To End Xorg: Is Wayland Ready? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Come the next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat is officially dropping the Xorg package, whilst it'll still be available in RHEL 9 until 2032 the countdown has begun, Xorg is on the way out. Are you and your software going to be ready in time.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

As the video points out, a lot of the work in xorg (and Linux in general, fwiw) is done by red hat engineers. So red hat cutting on that investment bears direct consequences for everyone else. Unless of course someone steps up and takes their place in maintenance, but it's not gonna happen, which is literally why Wayland (and not some revamped xorg) is the future of Linux desktop.

Also, red hat's decisions often trickle down on most other distros. E.g.: systemd, pulseaudio, pipewire, gnome, not including proprietary codecs, etc.

So, they technically don't arbiter, but they definitely set the pace.