Changeset 46fb0f9 for x/installing

Timestamp:

02/03/2022 09:19:22 PM (2 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pierre.labastie@…>

Branches:

11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

e97bb139

Parents:

57309187

git-author:

Pierre Labastie <pierre.labastie@…> (02/03/2022 08:48:51 PM)

git-committer:

Pierre Labastie <pierre.labastie@…> (02/03/2022 09:19:22 PM)

Message:

Changes so that X does not appear as the only graphic system

File:

• x/installing/installing.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

x/installing/installing.xml

@@ -6 +6 @@
 ]>
 
-<chapter id="x-window-system" xreflabel="X Window System">
+<chapter id="x-window-system" xreflabel="a graphical environment">
   <?dbhtml filename="installing.html" ?>
 
-  <title>X Window System Environment</title>
+  <title>Graphical Environments</title>
 
   <para>
@@ -16 +16 @@
   </para>
 
+<!-- Historical but not very useful now
   <para>
     <application>Xorg</application>, in addition to clearing up some
@@ -42 +43 @@
   </para>
 
-  <!--
   <para>
     Additionally, the BLFS book appends a build number
@@ -52 +52 @@
     been applied to the katamari.
   </para>
-  -->
+-->
+
+  <para>
+    For a long time the only graphical environment usable with GNU/Linux has
+    been the <emphasis>X Window System</emphasis>. It uses a client/server
+    model which allows to write applications completely independent on
+    the graphical hardware. This has the drawback that accessing modern
+    hardware acceleration is difficult, so that other approaches are developed.
+    Two new systems are available: <emphasis>Wayland</emphasis> and
+    <emphasis>Vulkan</emphasis>. The former is a simpler replacement for
+    X, easier to develop and maintain, using the OpenGL framework. The main
+    desktop environments GNOME and KDE have been ported to it. The later allows
+    direct access to graphical hardware through a portable interface. It is
+    newer and not yet included in BLFS.
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+    This chapter provides the basic components of the X Window System and
+    Wayland. For X, the chosen implementation is Xorg, which is a modular
+    implementation and requires more than 100 packages to be installed.
+    The distribution of Xorg is given a release number by the developers,
+    in this case Xorg-&xorg-version;, and is referred to as the "katamari" by
+    the upstream developers. Individual packages are updated as needed without
+    changing this number.
+  </para>
 
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="xorg7.xml"/>