On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:11:05 +0000 (UTC) you corralled some electrons and wrote:
> Frank Peters posted on Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:36:09 -0400 as excerpted: > > > Up and coming, like it or not, from the Freedesktop project is the > > X-Window replacement called Wayland. Gentoo is already involved with > > Wayland although it is still considered experimental. > > > > My concern is whether or not Wayland will totally supplant X-Window or > > will it exist as an option to X-Window. That is, when Wayland becomes > > finally ready for prime time, will we all be forced to adopt it with no > > alternative or will the standard X-Window also be a choice? > > Good question. Note that it can actually be seen as two separate > questions, one in general, and one as it applies to gentoo, specifically. > Ahem. Duncan, I was ready to archive this reply: tl;dr, but I'm glad I stuck with it. It's a long read, but I sincerely appreciate your perspective and detailed analysis of the current state of Wayland and dbus/udev. Thanks!. ~David > For the general case, from all I've read, all the informed sources seem > to expect the two to coexist together for some time, if I were to guess, > I'd say three years or so minimum, and likely far longer in some distros, > particularly those like gentoo and debian that support platforms running > more than just the Linux kernel and general GNU-based userland. Given > that the BSDs tend to move at a somewhat slower pace than Linux and some > of the wayland technology is currently most developed on Linux, it'll > likely be longer, I'd guess at least five years and very possibly a > decade or more, on them. > ...
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