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		craftinator on Nov 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deprecating scp So... have you heard of wayland? If X11 can be deprecated without a drop-in replacement, then scp is pretty much doomed.

fuzxi on Nov 6, 2020 [–]

X11 has not been deprecated. It is still actively developed. The most recent commit was 23 hours ago. [1]

[1]: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11

pabs3 on Nov 7, 2020 | [–]

I think these are the articles that craftinator was referring to:

https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24920183 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24884988

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