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“For a while we had hoped to get an actual Xorg release, but that's not
going to happen anymore, so finally going for a full fork,” Enrico
stated. “This fork [XLibre] became necessary, because it’s the
expressed wish of the current Xorg group's majority to abandon the
project, let it rot forever, and block any substantial contributions, let
alone new features. leaving it to the reader to deduce which
corporate interests are behind that, and instead just moving on.”
Enrico described the huge number of commits to Xorg which have been
simply waiting for a release. In some cases for years. Those changes will
finally see the light of day with the XLibre fork.
“First of all, it's the first major Xserver release since 4 years,” said the
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The XLibre fork of the ubiquitous open source implementation, Xorg,
plans first release with "about 3,000 commits" and no "DEI".
June 5, 2025