X.Org "Katamari" Releases Are Officially Dead

[phoronix]

Phoronix: X.Org "Katamari" Releases Are Officially Dead

It shouldn't come as a surprise with X11R7.7 being the last "katamari" release and it having debuted back in 2012, but no further "bundled" releases of X.Org are planned...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Katamari-Dead-2019

[uid313]

Is there any roadmap for X.Org?
What will is coming in the upcoming X.Org Server release?

Drop DRI1? Drop DRI2? Drop any other modules? Will there be a DRI4?
HDMI VRR? VESA Adaptive-Sync? HDR10+?
A tiny X.Org Server featuring nothing but XWayland?

[cl333r]

That's it, I'm downloading Fedora 30 and trying out Wayland on Nvidia's driver, I'm sick of X11.

[bwat47]

what the heck is a katamari release

[cybertraveler]

Is there any roadmap for X.Org?
...
A tiny X.Org Server featuring nothing but XWayland?

Want!

[cybertraveler]

what the heck is a katamari release

It sounds like an ancient, Japanese sexual practise.

[flower]

what the heck is a katamari release

once upon a time there was a big xorg release which includes all drivers in one package.
the last one of this kind of release was called katamari

[kpedersen]

I suppose it is like OpenBSD's Xenocara.
Basically code / libraries that are so closely related have no real reason to be split into hundreds of pointless packages wasting man hours to manage.

[devius]

once upon a time there was a big xorg release which includes all drivers in one package.
the last one of this kind of release was called katamari

So, this is only relevant to people not using a distro that already bundles Xorg?

[flower]

So, this is only relevant to people not using a distro that already bundles Xorg?

i'd say it's irrelevant for everybody as i am not aware of any distribution who uses the monolothic build.
(maybe slackware? not sure)