Hutterer: X servers no longer allow byte-swapped clients
Peter Hutterer writes
about the disabling of support for byte-swapped clients in the X.org server
and the reasons why this was done.

These days, encountering a Big Endian host is increasingly niche,
letting it run an X client that connects to your local
little-endian X server is even more niche. I think the only
regular real-world use-case for this is running X clients on an
s390x, co … ⌘ Read more