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   Peter Hutterer (whot@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 13:48:27 JST Peter Hutterer

   we should've renamed `/usr/bin/Xorg` to something like `/usr/bin/Xbaremetal` or something to cut down on the xorg vs Xorg vs X.Org confusion...

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     Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora: (conan_kudo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 13:48:25 JST Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

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     @whot Yeah, I wouldn't want to go back further either. At that point, I think you start getting into weird history artifacts from the conversion from CVS...

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     Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora: (conan_kudo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 13:48:26 JST Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

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     @whot I vaguely remember it used to just be called `/usr/bin/X` or is that just me being crazy and making stuff up?

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     Peter Hutterer (whot@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 13:48:26 JST Peter Hutterer

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     • Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

     @Conan_Kudo It was Xfree86 and renamed to Xorg after the split. I don't know when the X symlink appeared first though. A quick git grep dates the Xorg binary name to at least 2005 when autotools was added. Forgive me for not spelunking further :)

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     Alan Coopersmith (alanc@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 04:32:25 JST Alan Coopersmith

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     • Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

     @Conan_Kudo @whot I believe the /usr/bin/X symlink predates both Xorg and XFree86 and goes back to the versions from the 80’s, before loadable modules, when you’d link to the Xserver with the right DDX for your workstation (Xsun, Xdec, Xhp, etc)

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