[Linux.conf.au 2013] - The real story behind Wayland and X

Name: [Linux.conf.au 2013] - The real story behind Wayland and X
Description: A linux.conf.au 2013 talk by a Wayland developer who previously worked on X, telling the history of X and why Wayland was created. It covers X's hardware abstraction and architecture and why they became problematic for modern graphics.

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A linux.conf.au 2013 talk by a Wayland developer who previously worked on X, telling the history of X and why Wayland was created. It covers X's hardware abstraction and architecture and why they became problematic for modern graphics.

Whenever Wayland versus X comes up, HN points to this talk as the authoritative explanation from an X maintainer of why X was replaced.

6 Hacker News mentions · 2016–2023

Topics

Linux & open-source ecosystems
Computer graphics & rendering
Operating systems & kernels

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