Notices by Peter Hutterer (whot@fosstodon.org)

A short post that may help clear up the confusion stemming from seemingly mixed-message headlines like "new Xwayland release", "Xorg is abandoned", "new X server patches"

https://who-t.blogspot.com/2023/12/xorg-being-removed-what-does-this-mean.html

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...

@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 :)

libinput is turning 10 today 🎂

New Xorg security advisory 🎉

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-October/003430.html

Three CVEs but statistically only the first one (5367) will matter to you. And even that one really only if you're running X as root.

The second one affects Zaphod setups only and the third one only Xvfb with a Zaphod setup so they're well into niche territory, past the Unlikely canyon, and currently climbing the Improbably mountain.