If you all don't know about the drama, IBM basically has control over Xorg that manages X11. They've been working to kill it, suppressing bug fixes and stable releases. So IMB has effectively contributed to the whole Linux ecosystem being less secure than it otherwise could be. Really IMB has control of Redhat who has control of Fedora who has control of FreeDesktop.org who has control of XOrg who has control of X11-server.
Long story short the one guy who has been making commits to X11 for years, even though those commits never hit a release because they haven't had one in 4 years, decided enough is enough and just forked it. Well this has revealed that the blockade was engineered because orgs up the chain, particularly Fedora, have taken this move as hostile. A project isn't dying that is supposed to die and they aren't happy about it. And they have, in true corporate spirit, abused their code of conduct bullshit to ban and flame the guy who is fixing the problem, claiming they are protecting the community and prioritizing safety, as a proxy excuse. In reality they are just acting under their profit motive. Of course Fedora isn't supposed to have a profit motive. They are non-profit. But an org that controls them does have a profit motive.
Kind of reminds me of the whole OpenAI thing, where a supposed non-profit that's supposed to be for open source instead doesn't release to the public because that isn't their profit motive (of the controlling org), and they claim there is a safety problem to explain away their very odd behavior for an open source organization. There seems to be a pattern here.
In any case X11Libre is the new anti-soy tech that's going to be picked up soon by Artix, OpenMandriva, and Devuan very soon. All three are participating in testing and a new release with a lot of fixes (four years worth) is dropping in a few days.
But looking at those commits that are hitting daily I think other distros are going to have to pick it up. Less buggy, more secure, more features, faster Xorg, that has current maintenance is pretty much going to be mandatory for them to pick up.
Well the top three corpo-homo distros will hold out as long as they can. Ubuntu, Redhat/Fedora, and Suse. Arch already has it in the AUR, but Artix will get it in official repositories.
Even if it will be better than Xorg-X11 it is only one package so switching to it probably won't make your system amazing or anything. But it's a good fuck you to people who want to bring control culture to open source. They seem to care a lot about it so I guess I do to if only to piss them off. At this point they probably care more that their cancel culture isn't working. Ignoring their cancel and continuing to do shit like a normal human being even though they said stop is usually what their conniption is actually about.
Oh, also this fork is cutting out anything SystemD from X11.
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If you all don't know about the drama, IBM basically has control over Xorg that manages X11. They've been working to kill it, suppressing bug fixes and stable releases. So IMB has effectively contributed to the whole Linux ecosystem being less secure than it otherwise could be. Really IMB has control of Redhat who has control of Fedora who has control of FreeDesktop.org who has control of XOrg who has control of X11-server.
Long story short the one guy who has been making commits to X11 for years, even though those commits never hit a release because they haven't had one in 4 years, decided enough is enough and just forked it. Well this has revealed that the blockade was engineered because orgs up the chain, particularly Fedora, have taken this move as hostile. A project isn't dying that is supposed to die and they aren't happy about it. And they have, in true corporate spirit, abused their code of conduct bullshit to ban and flame the guy who is fixing the problem, claiming they are protecting the community and prioritizing safety, as a proxy excuse. In reality they are just acting under their profit motive. Of course Fedora isn't supposed to have a profit motive. They are non-profit. But an org that controls them does have a profit motive.
Kind of reminds me of the whole OpenAI thing, where a supposed non-profit that's supposed to be for open source instead doesn't release to the public because that isn't their profit motive (of the controlling org), and they claim there is a safety problem to explain away their very odd behavior for an open source organization. There seems to be a pattern here.
In any case X11Libre is the new anti-soy tech that's going to be picked up soon by Artix, OpenMandriva, and Devuan very soon. All three are participating in testing and a new release with a lot of fixes (four years worth) is dropping in a few days.
But looking at those commits that are hitting daily I think other distros are going to have to pick it up. Less buggy, more secure, more features, faster Xorg, that has current maintenance is pretty much going to be mandatory for them to pick up.
Well the top three corpo-homo distros will hold out as long as they can. Ubuntu, Redhat/Fedora, and Suse. Arch already has it in the AUR, but Artix will get it in official repositories.
Even if it will be better than Xorg-X11 it is only one package so switching to it probably won't make your system amazing or anything. But it's a good fuck you to people who want to bring control culture to open source. They seem to care a lot about it so I guess I do to if only to piss them off. At this point they probably care more that their cancel culture isn't working. Ignoring their cancel and continuing to do shit like a normal human being even though they said stop is usually what their conniption is actually about.
Oh, also this fork is cutting out anything SystemD from X11.
Update: Artix has a testing ISO ready
https://eu-mirror.artixlinux.org/testing-iso/artix-community-gtk-openrc-xlibre-20250618-x86_64.iso 6.4GB
Also here is an Artix thread: https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,8229.0.html