Mir Finally Turned On For Ubuntu Touch 13.10

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mir Finally Turned On For Ubuntu Touch 13.10

After a few days of wrangling, the very latest Ubuntu Touch images have the Mir Display Server replacing Android's SurfaceFlinger...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTQ4MTU

[blackout23]

Wasn't Mir on Ubuntu Touch images actually targeted for May 2013 initially?

[jonnor]

Wasn't Mir on Ubuntu Touch images actually targeted for May 2013 initially?

Seems unlikely given that they announced Mir in March. I've only heard late August/early September.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/08/15/mir-update-and-testing-mir-in-ubuntu-13-10/

[blackout23]

Seems unlikely given that they announced Mir in March. I've only heard late August/early September.
http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/08/15/...-ubuntu-13-10/

This is what made me think they wanted to have Mir on Ubuntu Touch a lot earlier.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/Spec#May_2013

Currently the Phablet image uses SurfaceFlinger to render. But very soon, this will be replaced with Mir and eventually the tablet will use the same infrastructure as the desktop image:

The image shows the Ubuntu Touch stack on Mir in May '13.

Maybe the ran into more roadblocks than expected, which gives the impression that the Mir developers don't have a lot experience in this field.

[TheBlackCat]

Maybe the ran into more roadblocks than expected, which gives the impression that the Mir developers don't have a lot experience in this field.

The first 90% of the work takes the first 90% of the time, and the last 10% of the work takes the last 90% of the time