As for why not using Wayland/Weston, the reasons expressed are the input event handling partly recreates the X semantics, the shell integration parts of the protocol are considered prvileged.
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Ubuntu Announces Mir, A X.Org/Wayland Replacement
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Originally posted by dh04000 View PostIts all GPL....... using free software components........ can I have some of those drugs your using? They sound like good stuff.
Not a walled garden, maybe - but at least a fence encouraging people to keep out.
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History repeating
I recall when Apple compared itself to FreeBSD when announcing OS X, there were 3 major things they overhauled: the kernel (XNU, parts brought from NeXT), the SystemV startup scripts (launchd), and the graphical user interface (Quartz). In Linux so far, the kernel constantly changes and SystemV scripts have been replaced with Upstart and/or SystemD. X.org hasn't been completely replaced; Ubuntu's analysis of Wayland is similar to what I've read elsewhere: Wayland will be a successor to Xorg. For light weight tasks, there is DirectFB or Android. Mir appears to be bulkier than Android, but slimmer than Wayland.
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THE FUCKING IDIOTS AAAGH
...seriously canonical, get your head out of your ass... stop fragmenting the ecosystem with this pointless bullshit!
- Mir is a new display server being developed at Canonical and it is not based on X.Org or Wayland.
- Android graphics drivers will be supported. Existing DRM/KMS/Mesa/GBM (the open-source Linux graphics drivers) will work. Canonical is pressuring the binary blob vendors to make their drivers compatible.
- Canonical will natively support the GTK3 and Qt/QML tool-kits with Mir.
- Mir will be used for all form factors from Ubuntu Phones to the Ubuntu Linux desktop.
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Originally posted by newwen View PostAt least is GPL. If Canonical pulls this off (which I doubt) others can adopt/fork it.
This is a serious bet. Either Canonical pulls this off or they're over.
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Originally posted by dee. View PostCanonical tries to make Ubuntu as incompatible with the rest of the linux ecosystem as possible
Is there actually any successful software project by Canonical?
Did they gave back anything of major importance to the community?
I can't think of a single example.
Meanwhile they managed to implant "GNU/Linux == Ubuntu" into the heads of many (new) users,
which is only amplified by Valve's choice of Ubuntu as their first-tier distribution.
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Originally posted by plonoma View PostTheir approach seems to not fragment the driver scene for once (being able to use android and mesa open source drivers).
The unified graphics driver stuff also sounds interesting.
The minimal assumptions thing seems a sound approach.
I'm hoping the cross-pollination of features will make everything better.
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