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

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Linux & open-source ecosystemsComputer graphics & renderingOperating systems & kernels

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “there's a decent video from back in 2013 about it.”

    Why Wayland replaced the old X codebase and architecture

    tux1968, 2021-03 · Recommendation · in “Guide: Full Wayland Setup for Linux”

  2. “a great presentation by one of the guys behind wayland, who worked on X a lot before”

    Wayland developer explains X's misaligned hardware abstraction

    kaba0, 2021-03 · Recommendation · in “Guide: Full Wayland Setup for Linux”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: wayland, x11, linux graphics, display servers, xorg

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