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kctipton

@rjayasinghe What's the significance of the word Wayland? I haven't seen any news explaining it.

24 Jul 2023 at 18:21 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mas.to
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Robin Jayasinghe

@kctipton Wayland being the successor of X(11)

I fear that’s a joke for Linux people πŸ˜‡

24 Jul 2023 at 18:28 | Open on chaos.social
jane_lance

@kctipton @rjayasinghe I would expect it to be a reference to Weyland-Yutani, but that's spelled differently

24 Jul 2023 at 19:27 | Open on mastodon.social
Mia // Davixxa

@jane_lance @kctipton @rjayasinghe As someone else pointed out - it's a reference to Wayland, the successor to X11.

Both are things that make GUIs work on Linux (and other UNIXlikes)

24 Jul 2023 at 20:17 | Open on mastodon.social
etym dub

@jane_lance

From the bulging file of 'things I suspect but never got round to chasing down':
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waylan

Ridley Scott being a Brit & all, I always wondered if he just nicked that name off a roadsign & tweaked the spelling...

@kctipton @rjayasinghe

26 Jul 2023 at 0:49 | Open on aus.social
CatsSimsBooks

@kctipton @rjayasinghe
TLDR On Linux and other Unix-like operating systems if you wanted to see anything other than text you used to use something called XWindows, or X. Everything else ran on top of that. Wayland has now (mostly) replaced it because its been getting really long in the tooth for a piece of software (been around since 1984) and full of kludges to run on modern hardware (although as shade tree mechanics say, if it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid)

24 Jul 2023 at 22:40 | Open on mastodonapp.uk
kctipton

@rjayasinghe i appreciate all the details, thanks.

25 Jul 2023 at 15:38 | Open on mas.to
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