
Red Hat to remove Xorg in favor of Wayland in RHEL 10 and future releases
Red Hat, a leading provider of open-source solutions, has announced its decision to remove Xorg server and other X servers, except for Xwayland, from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and subsequent releases. The company states that Xwayland should be capable of handling most X11 clients that won't be immediately ported to Wayland. For those needing more time to transition to a Wayland ecosystem, RHEL 9 will be supported for its full lifecycle.
This decision was made after Red Hat conducted a study to understand the status of Wayland from both an infrastructure and ecosystem perspective. The study concluded that despite some gaps and applications requiring adaptation, the Wayland infrastructure and ecosystem are in good shape. Red Hat believes that by the time RHEL 10 is released, planned for the first half of 2025, the identified blockers will be resolved.
Red Hat asserts that this move will enable them to concentrate their efforts solely on a modern stack and ecosystem from RHEL 10 onwards. This focus will help them address issues such as High Dynamic Range (HDR), increased security, setups with mixed low and high density displays or very high density displays, improved GPU/Display hot-plugging, better gestures and scrolling, among others.
However, the decision has generated mixed reactions within the user community. While some users have expressed excitement about the move to Wayland, others have voiced concerns on platforms like Hacker News.
