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Old August 16th, 2011, 13:45
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Default Where do we stand with Wayland.
I am under the assumption that Wayland is linked to the kernel (Linux). Where would we stand in a Linux central UNIX world? KDE is being ported to Wayland and I assume more and more "Desktop Environments" will be. Will this leave *BSD users without a desktop enviroment or is there plans on implementing Wayland with the FreeBSD kernel?
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Old August 16th, 2011, 13:55
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I am under the assumption that Wayland is linked to the kernel (Linux).
Not exactly. Wayland will use a few specific things that are only available with a linux kernel (udev for instance).
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KDE is being ported to Wayland and I assume more and more "Desktop Environments" will be.
Nothing is being 'ported' to wayland. KDE will be compatible to run on wayland, nothing more.

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Will this leave *BSD users without a desktop enviroment or is there plans on implementing Wayland with the FreeBSD kernel?
Xorg is still around and won't be gone anytime soon. And as far as I know there are no plans on porting Wayland to FreeBSD.
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Old August 16th, 2011, 14:03
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