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submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@mander.xyz to c/linux@programming.dev

This Valentine's Day there is a lot of red on the screen for the X.Org Server with the code delta as a result of renaming of their main Git development branch and in the process selectively dropping questionable patches to the prior "master" codebase.

The effort noted in January of X.Org Server May Create A New Selective Git Branch With Hopes Of A New Release This Year has now been realized. As of a short time ago today, the "master" Git branch is ended with new X.Org Server development now on "main" and in the process starting off from a starting point of 2024 and then laying on the acceptable patches that were queued up over the past two years. See that aforelinked article for more details.

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[-] freeman@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 days ago

Cue 5 forks launching, none of which is going to last the year (most of them a week).

[-] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

The only one that I think will last will be the rust rewrite one and xlibre.

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