A simpler description of wayland

[Darxus at chaosreigns.com]

The X server contains lots and lots of crufty old code going back to the
1980s that nobody uses and nobody (including the X developers) wants to
maintain, but is required to claim to be an X server. One option is:

1) Move all the useful modern stuff out to the Linux kernel and separate
   libraries.
2) Make all the crufty old stuff a separate piece dynamically loaded only when
   necessary.
3) Make a new minimal library to allow all the useful stuff from X to be used
   as efficiently and maintainably as possible.

That is what the X developers are doing, and that new library is called
Wayland.



So what do you think?  Accurate enough?  Likely to cause fewer people to
panic?

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