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  • throw0101d1 hour ago
    The mention of XQuartz (for macOS) reminded me to check that, and 2.8.6 was released mid-July:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xquartz.org&#x2F;releases&#x2F;bare&#x2F;XQuartz-2.8.6.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xquartz.org&#x2F;releases&#x2F;bare&#x2F;XQuartz-2.8.6.html</a><p>Previously 2.8.5 was out in 2023:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xquartz.org&#x2F;releases&#x2F;bare&#x2F;XQuartz-2.8.5.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xquartz.org&#x2F;releases&#x2F;bare&#x2F;XQuartz-2.8.5.html</a><p>There&#x27;s a XQuartz 2.8.7 beta as well (xorg-server 26.1 rebase):<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xquartz.org&#x2F;releases&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xquartz.org&#x2F;releases&#x2F;index.html</a>
    • egorfine51 minutes ago
      omg, it&#x27;s been over a decade since I have last used XQuartz. Did they finally open source the whole quartz-wm?
      • throw0101d40 minutes ago
        &gt; <i>An XQuartz installation consists of many individual pieces of software which have various licenses. The X.Org software components’ licenses are discussed on the X.Org Foundation Licenses page.[1] The quartz-wm[2] window manager included with the XQuartz distribution uses the Apple Public Source License Version 2.[3]</i><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xquartz.org&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xquartz.org&#x2F;index.html</a>
        • panzi36 minutes ago
          Just looked it up, that Apple license is indeed approved as open source&#x2F;free software by the FSF and OSI!
        • egorfine14 minutes ago
          Ah, I can see that the binary blob is not needed anymore. Nice.
  • tyzoid1 hour ago
    Isn&#x27;t most of this already in xlibre?
    • nazgulsenpai38 minutes ago
      People have all kind of opinions about xlibre as a project and the politics around it that I&#x27;m not interested in, but if they&#x27;re driving xorg to improve, that&#x27;s a good thing.<p>I&#x27;m not some anti-wayland zealot but you will pry xfce out of my cold dead hands.
      • tomstockmail11 minutes ago
        Xorg has had releases for years and will continue to do so. But as you can see in the announcement, enterprise users are the driving factor.
        • nazgulsenpai2 minutes ago
          Yeah, but they haven&#x27;t added any features in years, from what I assumed to be a maintenance only&#x2F;feature frozen stance in favor of Wayland, which is (primarily) why xlibre forked.
      • abenga25 minutes ago
        Even xfce will one day move to Wayland.
        • boudin17 minutes ago
          There&#x27;s already and experimental support no?
        • nazgulsenpai20 minutes ago
          And I&#x27;ll be there.
      • redsocksfan4528 minutes ago
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  • kobbs1 hour ago
    Intel modesetting driver with tearfree support in a xorg release!