Ubuntu's Mir 2.8 Released With Working Towards Hybrid GPU Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu's Mir 2.8 Released With Working Towards Hybrid GPU Support

Mir 2.8 is now available as the newest feature update to this Wayland compositor developed by Canonical for various Ubuntu use-cases, primarily around IoT, digital signage, and similar fields...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mir-2.8-Released

[C8292]

Why?
why not applying these developers efforts on wayland?

[ireri]

Why?
why not applying these developers efforts on wayland?

What are you talking about, Mir is a Wayland compositor, it says so in the first line of the article!

Why, why people won't read?

[Vistaus]

Why?
why not applying these developers efforts on wayland?

Why?
Why can't you read? Mir is a Wayland compositor, so they *are* spending their efforts on Wayland.

[Danny3]

Why?
why not applying these developers efforts on wayland?

It's Canonical, the company that suffers the most from the NIH syndrome.
They never contribute to what others are doing.
Just look how they went all in with the Snap garbage and how hard they try to push it forward!

[C8292]

What are you talking about, Mir is a Wayland compositor, it says so in the first line of the article!

Why, why people won't read?

take it easy man. I got under the impression a few years back MIR was a competitor to wayland, before wayland got adopted by the opensource community. that's why I asked.

[sarfarazahmad]

hmm does anyone know what happened to the Unity desktop? It was so good and then Canonical killed it :/

[Nth_man]

hmm does anyone know what happened to the Unity desktop? It was so good and then Canonical killed it :/

I have searched and found https://ubuntuunity.org/ and https://github.com/ubports/unity8/commits/, other people can find more places.

[sarfarazahmad]

I have searched and found https://ubuntuunity.org/ and https://github.com/ubports/unity8/commits/, other people can find more places.

oh f***! thanks man! I didn't know somebody was keeping the unity desktop alive!

[curfew]

take it easy man. I got under the impression a few years back MIR was a competitor to wayland, before wayland got adopted by the opensource community. that's why I asked.

So you haven't followed Mir / Wayland development in the last five years and didn't even care to read the article you were posting comments under. Why do you waste our time when you obviously just don't care?