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minus-squareRandomLegend [He/Him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down8·2 days agoWayland is just a few years younger than X11… It was first released in 2008…
minus-squareJul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 days agoX11 is way, way older than that. But it also was more actively developed for most of that time.
minus-squarertxn@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up25·edit-22 days agoX11 was released in 1987. The original X Window System was released in 1984. That is not just a few years of difference. If you meant the X.org implementation, then compare it to compositors, not to the protocol.
minus-squareUnityDevice@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoAnd xorg is older than it appears, as it was forked from the much older XFree86 over licensing disagreements. XFree86 started in 1991 according to Wikipedia.
Wayland is just a few years younger than X11… It was first released in 2008…
X11 is way, way older than that. But it also was more actively developed for most of that time.
X11 was released in 1987. The original X Window System was released in 1984. That is not just a few years of difference.
If you meant the X.org implementation, then compare it to compositors, not to the protocol.
And xorg is older than it appears, as it was forked from the much older XFree86 over licensing disagreements. XFree86 started in 1991 according to Wikipedia.