@steve603z@LundukeJournal I do. When I would like to copy/paste something small, like a word, without touching a keyboard I double click on a word to select the whole word and then middle click in a place where this word should go.
So over a year on YouTube, a video that shows people how to install LibreElec on a Raspberry Pi 5 to play your own, local, legally-acquired content on a TV...
My video was removed because it contains 'dangerous or harmful content', and my appeal was just rejected.
Holy smokes, got an exclusive story here that is a BIG one for Linux users:
Xorg is being forked, by the most active Xorg developer, with a first release planned later this month.
And, based on the tentative release notes which The Lunduke Journal got a sneak peek at, this looks to be the most significant release of Xorg in years… possibly over a decade.
Importantly: So this isn’t some fly-by-night fork.
This fork, named XLibre, is being spearheaded by Enrico Weigelt — who was responsible for 63% of the commits to the Xorg source code repository in 2024. This is the real deal.
The Lunduke Journal spoke to Enrico Weigelt to get some additional details.
“For a while we had hoped to get an actual Xorg release, but that's not
going to happen anymore, so I'm finally going for a full fork,” Enrico stated. “This fork [XLibre] became necessary, because it’s the expressed wish of the current Xorg group's majority to abandon the project, let it rot forever, and block any substantial contributions, let alone new features. I'm leaving it to the reader to deduce which corporate interests are behind that, and instead just moving on.”
Enrico described the huge number of commits to Xorg which have been simply waiting for a release. In some cases for years. Those changes will finally see the light of day with the XLibre fork.
“First of all, it's the first major Xserver release since 4 years,” said the XLibre lead. “About 3,000 commits waited for release. And hundreds of open merge requests that are shadowbanned by the [corporate Linux] moles.”
Some of the bigger changes include:
1) Xnamespace extension: a novel approach for isolating clients from different security domains (eg. containers) into separate X11 namespaces, where they can't hurt each other (for cases where Xsecurity from 1996 isn't sufficient).
2) Xnest ported to xcb - no more dependency on old Xlib anymore.
3) Per-ABI driver directories (allows distros installing multiple ABIs at the same time, eg. for smoother upgrades)
4) Cleaning up a huge amount of technical debt.
The XLibre project also says they aim to remedy some of the organizational and discrimination issues which have plagued Xorg in recent years. Specifically noting that all people are welcome to contribute… regardless of their political views.
“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 an boring average person. Anybody's welcome, who's interested in bringing X forward.”
The Lunduke Journal will be keeping a close eye on XLibre as it gets closer to their first planned release, currently scheduled for later in June. While many Linux distributions have moved to Wayland as an Xorg replacement… there remains a large majority of software which is reliant on Xorg, and many users who prefer it over Wayland (for a variety of reasons and use cases).
As such it is reassuring to see a viable fork of Xorg, by an established, prominent developer.
Donald Trump nominates The Prime Again for the Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too
'Frankly, no one reads like this guy. Barron -my son, he's very tall- he tells me the kids watch Prime read. Wow! He'll make reading great again'