This will be the last article I read from Phoronix, but truth be told I hardly ever find anything all that compelling on their site anyway, gladly removing it from my RSS server. But since the X11Libre fork and the highest contributor to X11 was banned from their platform with the fork repository deleted, Red Hat and IBM have been going overboard to smear the guy and squash the fork of X11, all trying to make sure Wayland becomes the standard in Linux going forward (AI integration and bossware spying?). And now in an attempt to smear the developer more, they’re undoing a lot of his contributions to X11 as well as getting tech reporters under their influence to smear the guy. If those patches were bad, why were they approved? Wouldn’t they have been reverted earlier, so why now if it’s not part of a misinformation campaign and desperation to keep the project from moving forward while they’re killing X11 (Xorg)? Consequently, this is a big story that isn’t getting much coverage other than the unwoke free software and opensource community getting excited about X11Libre getting out from under megacorp control to preserve the window manager. And I have several posts if you want to learn more about why this is important. And this has showed the technology reporters that cover Linux are about the same as other reporters, co-opted by advertisers or throttled by the owners of the platforms, so treat their coverage like you do the rest of the mainstream media.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Lots-Of-Reverts
By Michael Larabel
The X.Org Server has been seeing a lot of commits this week… to revert bad code.
Many Phoronix readers have been asking why I haven’t been covering news of the “X11Libre” fork of the X.Org Server or if I somehow missed it… No, simply a vote of no confidence. It’s highly unlikely to succeed long-term given the very limited experienced developers / resources and none of the major Linux stakeholders (companies) backing it.
A great example now are all of the reverts hitting the X.Org Server Git code after longtime X.Org developers began going through the code committed by the “X11Libre” developer prior to his ejection from the FreeDesktop.org camp.
There was this revert for not handling copyright and license notices correctly. Some existing code macros were moved to a new file while dropping the existing copyright holders from being mentioned in the new file and only adding the new contributor to that header file. The code license was also changed from MIT AND X11 to MIT OR X11.
Also merged this week was this big revert of prior “RandR cleanups” that ended up breaking at least some RandR functionality.
There was also a revert to avoid unnecessarily breaking the NVIDIA driver. It was also commented by NVIDIA that some additional requests for other reverts are coming too.
There were also other reverts for code of questionable value. And other reverts making changes without knowing the prior knowledge for why some macros were added in the first place by X.Org developers.
And the list goes on with more reverts expected soon.