On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 02:59:34PM +1000, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote:
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> I’m getting the impression from other sources that xlibre is mostly a political project and best avoided.
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> The whole “make X great again” tagline is another red flag to me.
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> https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/114716811258737155
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> https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/10/957
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> https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/11/linus_torvalds_vaccine_smackdown/
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> Also, alpine linux is staying away from xlibre for now:
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> https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/114717467792285512

I think after this settles down, someone having opinions
won't be deal breaker. Taking up the burden of maintaining a
fork of X11 codebase is huge, especially important to the
community given the previous maintainers' indifference and
outright hostility to the project.



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Joel Roth