Red Hat published the termination plan of the server X .org in the distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Initially, X.org Server was announced outdated and planned for removal in the future Rhel branch a year ago in the note to the release of RHEL 9.1. The possibility of launching X11 applications in the Wayland session, provided using the XWayland DDX server, will be saved. The first production of the RHEL 10 branch, in which the supply of X.org Server will be stopped, is scheduled for the first half of 2025.
The transition from the X Window System, which will turn 40 next year, has been taking place for more than 15 years on the basis of Wayland, and Red Hat has been actively involved in it from the very beginning. Over time, it became clear that the X11 protocol and the X.org server have the fundamental problems that need to be solved, and Wayland became such a solution. Today, Wayland is recognized de facto infrastructure for the window system and output of graphics in Linux. During this transition, Red Hat provided simultaneous support for both X.org stack and Wayland, which shared the forces spent on supporting new functions and correcting errors.
While the community realized new opportunities and eliminated flaws in Wayland, the development of the X.org server and the X11 infrastructure was folded. Wayland is significantly improved, but this means an increase in the load on the maintenance of two stacks: there is a lot of new work to support Wayland, but there is also the need to serve the old stack on the