Intel Reverts Plans, Will Not Support Ubuntu's XMir

[LinuxGamer]

I assume OpenGL apps are going to either run as is, or be trivial to get running, on both Mir and Wayland, since both use the same lower level EGL driver stack which is what actually handles OpenGL.

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[F i L]

I assume OpenGL apps are going to either run as is, or be trivial to get running, on both Mir and Wayland, since both use the same lower level EGL driver stack which is what actually handles OpenGL.

EGL/GLX only gives you an OpenGL context (a structure which manages video buffers, state changes, etc). You still need to talk to Wayland/Mir (through their APIs) to get a window surface in order to display OpenGL content, otherwise the Display Manager wouldn't know where to render the content. You can actually circumvent the DS entirely (which is how you get OpenGL to work on RaspberryPi right now), but you end up with a display that overlaps everything (and it's harder to do).

In case you don't know, SDL is a library which creates a window for you along with the OpenGL or DirectX context (through an DS agnostic API). It just hands you back the GL context so you can make video commands, but the Window it creates is largely limited to whatever SDL supports.. (there may be ways to get the underlying Wayland/Mir/Windows/Mac/etc surface pointers, idk, I haven't looked at it in awhile).

[jayrulez]

you know i can see a really usable Tizen desktop if that happens R.I.P. Ubuntu

Why would Ubuntu alone die as a result of Tizen succeeding? Shouldn't you be singing R.I.P to other distros as well?

[F i L]

Why would Ubuntu alone die as a result of Tizen succeeding? Shouldn't you be singing R.I.P to other distros as well?

Other distros will use Wayland..

(forgive me if that's a bit out of context, i wasn't paying attention to the full conversation)

[jayrulez]

Other distros will use Wayland..

(forgive me if that's a bit out of context, i wasn't paying attention to the full conversation)

Then you really shouldn't have replied...

[MartinN]

Why would Ubuntu alone die as a result of Tizen succeeding? Shouldn't you be singing R.I.P to other distros as well?

he's probably speculating that people would be drawn to Tizen over Ubuntu in the mobile space.... as a result of Intel's advertising budget vs Canonical's (just a guess).

rasta!

[jayrulez]

he's probably speculating that people would be drawn to Tizen over Ubuntu in the mobile space.... as a result of Intel's advertising budget vs Canonical's (just a guess).

rasta!

He said Tizen desktop

[Vim_User]

if its not in Debian Stable or testing and if it's in Unstable that looks just like maintains for Ubuntu to me i been using Debian a long time i know how they roll some of the best server software in the world is Debian Stable

For someone using Debian a long time your knowledge how Debian development works is astonishingly low (read: seems to be not existent).
Think about stopping to post on this topic, so that you don't embarrass yourself even more.

[F i L]

Then you really shouldn't have replied...

Well it's possible that it was in-context and that i made a valid point, lol.. but yeah, probably right.

[MartinN]

He said Tizen desktop

only read your quote, my bad.