Migration to XLibre

There has been a lot of unwelcome chatter about X being deprecated. In fact, many distributions no longer ship Xorg by default. This has led to problems not only for Linux accessibility but for other applications as well. For an example of this, take a look at the KiCad blog.

Fortunately, despite best efforts to “deprecate Xorg,” it continues on, thanks to the XLibre project. At the time of writing this article, the project boasts over 500 contributors on its GitHub page. Note, it was pointed out to me that that statistic is all contributions from 2000. There is a graph that shows actual contribution information for each contributor if you are interested.

Stormux is an early adopter of XLibre. Current GUI-capable Stormux Raspberry Pi images ship with XLibre and I38 support by default, and XLibre is also used in the Stormux Gaming Image. XLibre provides the X server stack Stormux uses for these desktop sessions.

I would like to extend heartfelt thanks to the creators and contributors of the XLibre project. Your work is providing a better way forward—not only for those of us who depend on Linux accessibility, but for everyone who is clearly not satisfied with the alternative.