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From what I understand, xorg has fundamental security flaws. How will they remedy this?
Why stick with a dead standard when the rest of the FOSS world has moved on?
What happens when the Linux kernel drops support for xorg? Do they intend to fork an older version of the kernel in order to keep support?
The only way to fix Xorg is to break org. It requires a redesign.
The Xorg devs chose to do that by starting a separate project. The breakage has been in Wayland, now maturing, while Xorg was left stable. Xlibre wants bring this disruption to the X codebase itself.
While that's true, but the main issue here is the unavailability of frequent security patches that Fedora now appears to be attempting to solve with X11Libre.