Red Hat’s RHEL 10 will Phase Out Xorg in Favor of Wayland
Xorg and Wayland represent two fundamentally different approaches to graphical server systems in the Linux world, sparking a lively and ongoing debate among the community.
In light of this, Xorg, the classic standard, is known for its extensive history and broad compatibility, while Wayland is viewed as a more modern and streamlined successor.
More than anything, however, it seems that Xorg is living its last days, with more and more Linux distributions and desktop environments about to abandon it in favor of Wayland. For example, KDE and GNOME have declared their intentions to fully transition to Wayland in their upcoming versions, a move that Fedora has also joined in.
Direct: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 plans for Wayland and Xorg server
GamingOnLinux:
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Xorg is dead, long live Wayland - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) dropping Xorg
Some interesting Linux industry news for you here, as the long road towards Wayland by default everywhere is taking another big step with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) removing the Xorg server and other X servers (except Xwayland) from RHEL 10 and the following releases.
The Register:
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Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org
Red Hat reckons Wayland is now mature enough to take over as the only display server in the forthcoming RHEL 10.
A blog post by Carlos Soriano Sanchez, head of the GPU team on RHEL, spells out news that doesn't come as a big surprise: the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, expected in 2025, will drop X.org and will provide only a Wayland display server. As RHEL only offers GNOME, that means it will offer the Mutter compositor and nothing else.
When RHEL 8 was released in 2019, Wayland became the default display server, and when RHEL 9 appeared three years later, X.org was officially deprecated. Soriano Sanchez goes on to say...
Linux Magazine:
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Red Hat Migrates RHEL from Xorg to Wayland
With the release of RHEL 10, Red Hat plans on making the migration from Xorg to Wayland, thereby closing the door on the out-of-date Linux windowing service for good.
On November 27th, developer Carlos Sanchez posted this in the official announcement...
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Will Be Wayland-Only
Red Hat has announced it will go all-in on Wayland with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10, dropping support for Xorg server.
The X Window System has been the default display solution for Linux for three decades. Unfortunately, Xorg and X11 have become a patchwork of code that make it difficult to update and add new features. As a result, Wayland has been in development for the last 15 years as a replacement, with developers eager to avoid the issues that have led to the Xorg dead-end. The road to Wayland has not been without its own challenges, however, which is why it still isn’t the default on my many Linux distros.