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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 05 2019, @08:46AM
Speaking of NTP...
Notice how NTP's timeservers are all DNS based? To be clear, what's really happening is people are donating timeserver services, and they're using the NTP.org domain to do it.
Now notice how ntp.org is now DNSSEC based?
What happens if the time is too far off, with DNSSEC based records? That's right, they DO NOT WORK!
So if your clock is out of sync too far, and we're not talking even weeks here, more like days or EVEN hours depending on the state of the DNSSEC record, you can't use NTP to update your time, because NO DNS RECORD!
What fool thought DNSSEC for NTP servers was a good idea, I'll never know. But it's indicative of people not thinking things through today. DNSSEC! SECURE!!!
And of little use, if you can't get the record.
And yes, you can disablr in your DNS server, eg bind, but of what use is that? Then why have it?
So now I have to use IP addresses on all my servers, and hope they don't change... otherwise no NTP for me!