Xlibre project's fork of the Xorg xserver, with lots of code cleanups and enhanced functionality.
That fork was necessary since toxic elements within Xorg projects, moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project, to elimitate competition of their own products. Classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" tactics.
Right after first journalists began covering the planned fork Xlibre, on June 6th 2025, Redhat employees started a purge on the Xlibre founder's gitlab account on freedesktop.org: deleted the git repo, tickets, merge requests, etc, and so fired the shot that the whole world heared.
This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies. Anybody who's treating others nicely is welcomed.
It doesn't matter which country you're coming from, your politicial views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear boots or heels, whether you're furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just an boring average person. Anybody's welcomed, who's interested in bringing X forward.
Together we'll make X great again!
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Module ABIs have changed - drivers MUST be recompiled against this Xserver verison, otherwise the Xserver can crash or not even start up correctly.
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If your console is locked up (no input possible, not even VT switch), then most likely the input driver couldn't be loaded due version mismatch. When unsure, Better be prepared to ssh into your machine from another one or set a timer that's calling
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Proprietary NVidia drivers might break: they still haven't managed to do do even simple cleanups to catch up with Xorg master for about a year. All attempts to get into direct mail contact have failed. We're trying to work around this, but cannot give any guarantees.
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Most xorg drivers should run as-is (need recompile!), with some exceptions. See .gitlab-ci.yml for the versions/branches built along w/ Xlibre.
- Mailing list: https://www.freelists.org/list/xlibre
- Telegram channel: https://t.me/x11dev