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Chris Siebenmann, a UNIX herder at the University of Toronto CS Lab, asserts that the death watch for the X Window System (aka X11) has probably started:
I was recently reading Christian F.K. Schaller's On the Road to Fedora Workstation 31 (via both Fedora Planet and Planet Gnome). In it, Schaller says in one section (about Gnome and their move to fully work on Wayland):
Once we are done with this we expect X.org to go into hard maintenance mode fairly quickly. The reality is that X.org is basically maintained by us and thus once we stop paying attention to it there is unlikely to be any major new releases coming out and there might even be some bitrot setting in over time. We will keep an eye on it as we will want to ensure X.org stays supportable until the end of the RHEL8 lifecycle at a minimum, but let this be a friendly notice for everyone who rely the work we do maintaining the Linux graphics stack, get onto Wayland, that is where the future is.
X11, for all its advantages, also has several incurable design flaws relating to security. However, the major distros have not yet been in any hurry to replace it. Wayland is touted as the next step in graphical interfaces. What are Soylentils thoughts on Wayland or the demise of X11?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday July 05 2019, @03:42AM
Ironically enough, our corporate network also bans VNC as a security risk, but several products we sell have it baked in as our remote support tool... When I started they didn't have a desk for me so I continued to work from home as I had been doing at my previous job, installed VNC, started using the heck out of it with colleagues two timezones away, then when I finally got a cube and tried to download a VNC client from within the office network I got the big "THIS SITE HAS BEEN BANNED..." notice, oh well.
One day, about 3 months after that, some visiting IT mavens dropped by my desk and casually asked me about how I was using VNC - I explained how it helps to collaborate with our other teams around the country, how it is cross platform which is important for sharing our Linux product screens with people on their Windows based development machines, they nodded, thanked me for my time and walked away. Five years later the other shoe hasn't dropped yet...
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