X11 is a vital piece of technology at the core of professional Unix-like workstations since deades. It has a proven track record of suppporting enterprise-grade applications with long-term protocol stability and platform compatibility. It has matured over decades. XLibre is an actively developed fork of the X.Org X11 server, initiated by the most active X.Org developer and supported by the open source community.
An incomatible alternative, Wayland, is being aggessively pushed by IBM = Red Hat = Gnome = Fedora = freedesktop.org. However, it is not ready to succeed X11 as it its goovernance model leads to never-ending discussions and prevents even the most essential functionality from existing. Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!
It is time that the open source community reclaims what was ours to begin with. This page lists distibutions supporting XLibre so that you can make an informed choice.
Please comment below in case something should be added/changed.
| Distribution | XLibre Support | Links |
|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ✅ Supportive | https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xlibre-server-common |
| Artix Linux | ✅ Supportive | https://artixlinux.org/download.php#testing |
| OpenMandriva | ✅ Supportive | https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/xlibre/tree/master |
| Vipnix Linux | ✅ Supportive | https://github.com/vipnix/livecd |
| ... | ✅ Supportive | ... |
| Distribution | XLibre Support | Links |
|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | ❗ Hostile | https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/86092 |
| Fedora | ❗ Hostile | Discussion |
| Kubunu | ❗ Removed X11 | https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/mixed_news_for_x11/ |
| Ubuntu | ❗ Removed X11 (had no choice since Gnome removed X11) | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-25-10-drops-support-for-gnome-on-xorg/62538 |
| ... | ❗ Hostile | ... |
| Distribution | XLibre Support | Links |
|---|---|---|
| Debian | ❓ Unclear | ... |
| FreeBSD | ❓ Unclear | https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/so-long-xorg-thanks-for-all-the-fish-hello-xlibre.98054/ Porting in progress: https://github.com/b-aaz/xlibre-ports |
| Linux Mint | ❓ Unclear | https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=448452 ("Let us wait and see how things will evolve") |
| openSUSE | ❓ Unclear | https://forums.opensuse.org/t/xlibre-is-a-fork-of-the-xorg-xserver-with-lots-of-code-cleanups-and-enhanced-functionality/185990 https://forums.opensuse.org/t/official-stance-on-dropping-x11-from-major-release-16/182102/11 |
| ... | ❓ Unclear | ... |
Thanks. Added.