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The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre) (github.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Goten@piefed.social to c/linux@lemmy.world

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who messes with my post? someone put a link to ycombinator in it. Atleast ask me.

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[–] wakko@lemmy.world 52 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is the childish actions of a whiny technofascists that's gotten himself banned for cause. Note the open bigotry right in the README. For some odd reason he feels the need to make an anti-DEI statement. Treat it like the far-right dog whistle it is.

[–] chonkyninja@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Yuuuup. Even the X developers all moved on to Wayland work.

[–] Gloria@sh.itjust.works 36 points 7 months ago

"Together we'll make X great again!" together with a Telegramm channel link

I pass.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The readme doesn't inspire confidence.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah that's a bunch of red flags right off the bat.

Isn't X effectively dead anyway, and most people moving to Wayland?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Isn’t X effectively dead anyway, and most people moving to Wayland?

Yeah, XWayland will be around for quite some time but X11 / Xorg Server as stand-alone display server is pretty much dead.

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

DEI is a discriminatory policy for a repo? Granted I'm no programmer, but that feels like a made up "problem" to be solving for something like X.org. The README looks like the ravings of a spurned ex employee or someone that may need some professional help.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

how would dei work with volunteer projects like online foss projects anyway?

[–] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago

Readme literally was changed to have the phrase "make x great again". I wonder what got this person to fork it.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ok. This is interesting, if a bit conspiracy-theory-ish:

moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project, to elimitate competition of their own products. Classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" tactics.

Right after first journalists began covering the planned fork Xlibre, on June 6th 2025, Redhat employees started a purge on the Xlibre founder's gitlab account on freedesktop.org: deleted the git repo, tickets, merge requests, etc,

I wonder what the story behind this is. Why would anyone want to hinder progress on X11?

[+] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub -11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think it's more about the politics, not X11 itself. Right wing people are getting harassed as always.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They wouldn't get harassed if they minded their own business and stopped harassing others.

[+] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub -11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well I'm sure there are a lot of right wing movements and some of them are aggressive but I personally only mind people who don't respect others and I haven't found a difference between left wing and right wing people in terms of that. However left leaning ones do it in disguise and lie about themselves so my choice was obvious. I value honesty too after all.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Being left or right doesn't make you good or bad. There are plenty of reasonable right-wing groups. However few to none of them identify as right wing. The Democrats in the United States for instance. A staunchly, solidly right-wing group. That most people somehow mistakenly think are left wing.

No, the people desperate to identify themselves with vagaries such as left or right. Almost without exception are some of the worst most horrible people you'll ever meet. Only trying to deny the failures of their ideas, or deflect from the horrible things they want to do to others. Leninists and fascists are both Prime examples of this.

Anyone who talks or acts like DEI is a problem is a clown who deserves to be ridiculed. Its possible to have substantive nuanced criticism of DEI. Left or right. But DEI isn't the problem. The people whining about it typically are.

[–] sxan@midwest.social -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wait, what? How did politics come into this? Did they talk about DEI in the README? I didn't read the whole thing.

That would be disappointing.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's in the readme. Several comments above this and around this all mention it. You can search for it and you will find it.

Dei really shouldn't be considered politics of course. It should just be a part of being a decent person. But those who persecute others or don't care about the persecution of others at least. Always have to put on a show to make everything about them. How acknowledging traditionally excluded people is somehow an attack or imposition on them

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 2 points 7 months ago

I mean, whatever literally works.