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The Wayland Wars: How Linux’s Grand Display Server Replacement Fractured a Community and Set Back Desktop Computing
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The Wayland Wars: How Linux’s Grand Display Server Replacement Fractured a Community and Set Back Desktop Computing
In 2008, a Red Hat engineer named Kristian Høgsberg began writing code that would eventually ignite one of the longest and most bitter technical debates in open-source history. The project was called Wayland, and its mission sounded reasonable enough: replace the aging X Window System — the display server protocol that had powered Unix and Linux graphical interfaces since 1984 — with something modern, secure, and architecturally sound. Sixteen y…
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