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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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ELI5 the whole Wayland vs X11 going on. (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by alexdeathway@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 102 points 10 months ago (3 children)

https://xkcd.com/963/ (October 2011)

[Mouseover text] Thomas Jefferson thought that every law and every constitution should be torn down and rewritten from scratch every nineteen years--which means X is overdue.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago

You know... That's fair.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

As somebody that first configured X back in 1991, I agree with this message.

To be fair though, with KMS, libdrm, and libinput, setting up X is 1000 times easier than it used to be. I suspect most users never even need to open Xorg.conf or even know it exists.

Ironically, all these technologies are also used by Wayland. A lot of what Wayland does not do, Xorg basically does not do either.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

it also means Wayland is due to be replaced in a few years lol