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Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups

https://x11libre.net/
14•doener•41m ago

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komali2•33m ago
Seems interesting but unfortunately might be a bit political?

> It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies.

Complaining about DEI is a marker for a specific ideology. I see this and think great, a project of people who want to be allowed to "just crack jokes" but then get super defensive when they get called out on it.

It also makes me instantly suspect that their ejection from the project from which they forked had more to do with how they composed themselves rather than the fact that they were considering a fork.

If the dev was hoping to keep their project "apolitical," they should probably leave out the two paragraphs of politics...

voidUpdate•31m ago
They're also explicitly pro-DEI, given the next paragraph.

"It doesn't matter which country you're coming from, your political views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear boots or heels, whether you're furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just a boring average person. Anybody who's interested in bringing X forward is welcome."

delaminator•24m ago
That's Equality not Equity.
voidUpdate•23m ago
That's Inclusion
speed_spread•22m ago
It's the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" of contributors agreement.
bmacho•13m ago
I don't see how are they racist, sexist and ageist? They seem to be against that?
voidUpdate•5m ago
I don't see how they are any of those things either...
bowsamic•30m ago
Not just politically bad but I read through the authors contributions to X11 that got him banned and they were full of random renamings and irrelevant refactorings that seemed to have no reason to be there other than to look like he was changing lots of things. That’s why he was kicked out, because he kept making really technically bad pull requests, not for political reasons
clhodapp•27m ago
They were ejected because they submitted some seriously broken patches, which triggered kind of a panic re-review of their previous patches, which concluded that they had been careless the whole time (Chesterton's Fence type stuff).

The political stuff is just an extra bonus.

doener•32m ago
Please note: I just stumbled upon this and have no affiliation with this project.
sylware•19m ago
I build my own distro, I build myself xorg (but I am writting my own wayland compositor in order to move away from x11), I was the witness of all their tantrums breaking things all over xorg.

I did appreciate a lot the revert of all their code.

microtonal•16m ago
Earlier discussion (5 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44199502
d-lisp•14m ago
> Together we'll make X great again!

But isn't the problem of X a problem of responsabilities breadth ? I.e. a philosophical problem rather than a "implementation" one ?

(For my part I haven't switched to wayland yet, and still use BSPWM)

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