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#1 Re: Other Issues » Could the great, famous, FVWM95 put back into the DEVUAN repositories? » 2017-06-01 20:55:04
Fvwm1 looks like Motif Window Manager and that was probably because MWM was proprietary when Fvwm1 was made. However these days MWM is free software and you can install it with `apt install mwm`. Feature-wise both are very lightweight, but MWM is slightly better if for no other reason than supporting alt+tab.
If you want Win95-like look, there is also QVWM - http://ahinea.com/en/tech/qvwm/
#2 Re: Off-topic » When Wayland will fully replace the old X11? » 2017-05-26 20:11:31
FWIW i fully expect Wayland to become the default display server in the future, at least for the mainstream Linux distributions (especially Fedora and Ubuntu). But being default doesn't mean being the only option, as long as you can remove it (or not install it at all, for the distros that start small and allow you to build up your environment as you like it) it'll be fine.
#3 Re: Off-topic » When Wayland will fully replace the old X11? » 2017-05-26 18:51:06
X11 is a protocol, not an implementation. Xorg just happens to be the currently most popular implementation. Some years ago it was XFree86, before that it was something else.
The thing with protocols and implementations is that you do not have to rely on a single implementation. Indeed there are other X11 implementations beyond Xorg (some even written in JavaScript - for example this one https://github.com/GothAck/javascript-x-server).
So what if Xorg dies? Well, first it wont matter for as long as there are people who want to use X11 since there will be other X11 servers. But secondly, and most importantly, it wont die because it can be forked. Much like Devuan exists because some people disliked systemd, a Xorg fork will certainly be made because there will be people who dislike Wayland.
Xorg is FLOSS after all. FLOSS doesn't die, at the worst case it just stays dormant until someone picks it up again. There are way less popular projects in the world than X11/Xorg that have active thriving communities, there is no danger of X11/Xorg going anywhere for at least a couple of decades from today.
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