Mir is the display server developed by Canonical to compete with Wayland and ultimately succeed the X.Org Server. Mir is in production use on Ubuntu Touch while it's expected to be used by default in the Ubuntu 14.10 Linux release. The Mir Display Server was announced in 2013.

Additional Information: unity.ubuntu.com/mir

Mir Articles & Reviews

Linux 5.5 Feature Overview - Raspberry Pi 4 To New Graphics Capabilities To KUnit   Software   2019-12-08
Mesa 17.3 With RADV Vulkan Running Great With Polaris, Starts To Outperform AMDGPU-PRO   Display Drivers   2017-10-24
Ubuntu 17.10 Ships Today - Arguably Its Most Interesting Release In Years   Operating Systems   2017-10-19
A Look Back At The Desktop & X.Org/Wayland/Mir Milestones Of Ubuntu   Operating Systems   2017-04-05
Trying Out Unity 8 + Mir On Ubuntu 17.04   Operating Systems   2017-03-23
Trying Out The Experimental Unity 8 Session On Ubuntu 16.10   Software   2016-10-05
Ubuntu 14.10 XMir System Compositor Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2014-10-23
Early Ubuntu 14.04 Intel XMir Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2014-01-02
XMir Performance Measured On Ubuntu 13.10   Software   2013-10-19
X.Org vs. XMir On KDE, Xfce, Unity Desktops   Software   2013-09-24
Mesa 9.2 X.Org/Mir Ubuntu 13.10 Performance Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2013-08-30
Composite Bypass Support Sharply Bumps XMir's Performance   Software   2013-08-29
Intel Haswell Laptop Impact When Running XMir   Display Drivers   2013-08-18
Unity On XMir Performance For Nouveau Gallium3D   Software   2013-06-30
2D Performance Also Impacted By Unity On XMir   Software   2013-06-29
The First Benchmarks Of Unity On XMir: There's A Performance Hit   Display Drivers   2013-06-28
The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland   Display Drivers   2013-06-07
Fedora 17 vs. Fedora 18 Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2013-01-24
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Battles Fedora 17 On Intel Ivy Bridge   Operating Systems   2012-06-26
Intel HD 4000 Ivy Bridge Graphics On Linux   Graphics Cards   2012-04-24
ECS A780GM-A v1.0   Motherboards   2008-04-14
Tagan BZ 900W   Power Supplies   2008-03-18
OCZ ReaperX HPC 4GB PC2-6400   Memory   2008-03-14
New Project Indiana Details Emerge   Operating Systems   2007-09-19
Ubuntu's displayconfig-gtk   Display Drivers   2007-08-24
Fedora 7 Test 3 Live   Operating Systems   2007-03-29
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Herd 5   Operating Systems   2007-03-05
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Herd 2   Operating Systems   2007-01-14
Fedora Core 6   Operating Systems   2006-10-19
Linspire v5.1.365 Beta Italiano   Operating Systems   2006-04-01
Customizing Fedora 4   Operating Systems   2005-12-17
MEPIS SimplyMEPIS v3.4-1 RC1   Operating Systems   2005-11-24
Ultra Products X-Finity 600W   Power Supplies   2005-03-26

Mir Linux & Open-Source News

UWSM Aims To Be A Universal Wayland Session Manager   Wayland   2024-03-06
Miracle-WM Announced As A Wayland Compositor Built On Mir   Wayland   2024-02-19
GNOME Network Displays Adds Support For Chromecast & Miracast MICE Protocols   GNOME   2024-01-25
Valve Releases Proton 8.0-5 With Many Fixes, More Windows Games Now Playable   Valve   2024-01-22
A 2024 Discussion Whether To Convert The Linux Kernel From C To Modern C++   Linux Kernel   2024-01-10
AMD Announces Automotive-Grade Ryzen Embedded V2000A Series   AMD   2024-01-04
Ubuntu Looking At Discontinuing Its Source ISOs   Ubuntu   2024-01-04
Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023   Wayland   2024-01-01
Intel Meteor Lake, Emerald Rapids & Other Popular Topics For December   Phoronix   2024-01-01
Fedora 40 Looks To Provide Optimized x86_64 Binaries For Different HWCAPs   Fedora   2023-12-30
Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 Focal Brings PinePhone Images, Initial Snap Support   Ubuntu   2023-12-29
Firefox 121 Now Available With Wayland Enabled By Default   Mozilla   2023-12-18
Debian 12.3 Delayed Due To An EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Being Addressed   Debian   2023-12-10
Using Miriway For Empowering Xfce / MATE / LXQt & Other Desktops With Wayland   Wayland   2023-12-01
Coreboot 4.22 Released: Initial AMD OpenSIL Code Added, 17 New Motherboards   Coreboot   2023-11-28
Mir 2.16 Released With Seamless Boot Integration, Improved X11 Client Support   Ubuntu   2023-11-28
Microsoft Gets OpenGL 4.4 Running Atop Direct3D 12 Using Mesa, OpenGL 4.5 Inbound   Microsoft   2023-11-14
Blender 4.0 Released For This Incredible Open-Source 3D Modeling Software   Free Software   2023-11-14
Ubuntu's Miriway Maturing As A Mir-Based Wayland Compositor For Other Desktops   Ubuntu   2023-11-07
Bcachefs Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.7   Linux Storage   2023-10-30
Intel's Mesa Drivers Enable "TBMIR" Tile-Based Rendering   Intel   2023-10-28
Ubuntu's Mir Working On Hybrid Graphics / Multi-GPU Support   Ubuntu   2023-10-23
KDE Plasma 6 Has New Role For "F10", Kate/KWrite Text-To-Speech & Smooth Scrolling   KDE   2023-10-14
CentOS Starts An Integration SIG To Help Products/Services Built On RHEL / CentOS Stream   Red Hat   2023-09-21
Ubuntu 23.04 & 22.04.3 Installs Haven't Been Following Their Own Security Best Practices   Ubuntu   2023-09-15
Mir 2.15 Released With Cleaning Up Some APIs, Improved Alt+Tab   Ubuntu   2023-08-23
LoongArch "Loong64" Added To Debian Ports   Debian   2023-08-16
Intel Meteor Lake Graphics Still Experimental "Force Probe" With Linux 6.6   Intel   2023-08-11
Mageia 9-rc1 Now Available For This Long-Delayed Release   Operating Systems   2023-07-21
Ubuntu's Mir 2.14 Released With Wayland Drag & Drop, Screen Locker Support   Ubuntu   2023-07-18
Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 2.6 Preparing New Features   Arch Linux   2023-07-17
Ubuntu Revisiting Its Initramfs Compression Approach   Ubuntu   2023-07-10
Intel Continues Working On IAA Crypto Compression Driver For Linux   Intel   2023-06-21
Arch Linux Completes Its Git Migration   Arch Linux   2023-05-21
Arch Linux Prepares For Repository Changes, Discontinuing SVN Access   Arch Linux   2023-05-16
Ubuntu 23.10 Looks To dhcpcd5 For Replacing ISC DHCP Client   Ubuntu   2023-05-11
Ubuntu 23.10 Looks Like It Will Switch To Using Dbus-Broker   Ubuntu   2023-05-02
MidnightBSD 3.0.1 Released With Security Fixes, rc.d Scripts Cleanup   BSD   2023-04-05
Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal Released For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS On Smartphones   Ubuntu   2023-03-27
Ubuntu's Mir 2.13 Released With Wayland Updates, Other Enhancements   Ubuntu   2023-03-20
Fedora 38 Beta Released With Many Exciting Updates   Fedora   2023-03-14
openSUSE Tumbleweed Sets Great Example With x86-64-v3 HWCAPS   SUSE   2023-03-06
RBOS Updated As The Linux Live Environment Showcasing The Latest Wayland Code   Wayland   2023-01-17
Mir 2.11 Released With A Fix Around XWayland Use   Ubuntu   2023-01-08
UBports' Ubuntu Touch 20.04-Based Build Offered In New Beta/RC Channel   Ubuntu   2022-12-26
Firefox 108 Now Available With WebMIDI, Import Maps Enabled By Default   Mozilla   2022-12-12
SDL3 Begins Dumping A Lot Of Old Code: GLES1, OS/2, DirectFB, WinRT, NaCl & More   Linux Gaming   2022-11-23
Ubuntu's Mir 2.10 Released With Modernized Touch Events, New Window Move Gesture   Ubuntu   2022-10-26
System76 Upgrades Thelio Desktops With Intel Raptor Lake, AMD Zen 4 CPU Options   Hardware   2022-10-20
KDE Plasma Wayland Now Supports High Resolution Scrolling   KDE   2022-10-15
GNOME-Network-Displays Available With Ubuntu 22.10 For Miracast Wireless Displays   Ubuntu   2022-10-09
System76 Launches Redesigned Thelio Desktop   Hardware   2022-09-20
Apache Talks Up More Than 333 Million OpenOffice Downloads   Free Software   2022-08-31
Archinstall 2.5-rc1 For Easily Installing Arch Linux   Arch Linux   2022-08-31
Mir 2.9 Released With XDG-Shell For Wayland, Support For More Protocols   Ubuntu   2022-08-26
Ubuntu Linux Preparing systemd-hwe To Ease OEM Hardware Enablement   Ubuntu   2022-08-14
Linux 6.0 Adds EFI Mirrored Memory & ACPI PRM For 64-bit Arm   Linux Kernel   2022-08-10
Firefox 103 Better Handles High Refresh Displays, WebGL Performance Fix On NVIDIA Driver   Mozilla   2022-07-26
Linux x86 32-bit Is Vulnerable To Retbleed But Don't Expect It To Get Fixed   Linux Security   2022-07-24
RADV Continues Getting Ready For Vulkan Mesh Shader Support   Mesa   2022-07-21
GNOME Shell + Mutter 43 Alpha Released   GNOME   2022-07-11
Vulkan Mesh Shaders To Closely Mirror Direct3D 12 Capabilities   Mesa   2022-06-21
Meta Developing A New IR For LLVM's Clang C/C++ Compiler With Better Speed, Security   LLVM   2022-06-21
EPEL Statistics Show Recent Surge In Rocky Linux Usage Past AlmaLinux, CentOS Stream   Operating Systems   2022-06-19
Ubuntu Core 22 Released For IoT & Embedded Devices   Ubuntu   2022-06-15
FreeDesktop.org GitLab Down Due To Drive Failures   Mesa   2022-06-13
Linux 5.19 Allows EFI Accessing VM Secrets For Confidential Computing / AMD SEV   Linux Security   2022-05-29
Ubuntu's Mir 2.8 Released With Working Towards Hybrid GPU Support   Ubuntu   2022-05-24
openSUSE Leap 15.4 Nears Release, RCs Now Available   SUSE   2022-05-17
Ubuntu Core 22 Beta Released For IoT & Edge Devices   Ubuntu   2022-05-13
AlmaLinux 9 Beta Released For Testing As No-Cost RHEL9 Alternative   Operating Systems   2022-04-19
Huawei Working On UEFI Mirrored Memory Support For Linux AArch64   Arm   2022-04-16
Mir 2.7 Released With MirOil For Helping To Migrate Lomiri / Unity 8   Ubuntu   2022-02-24
AMDGPU X.Org 22.0 Driver Released With AsyncFlipSecondaries, GLAMOR Fixes   Radeon   2022-02-23
Steam Deck Platform Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel   Valve   2022-02-06
Arch Linux Now Provides Debug Packages, Debuginfod Integration   Arch Linux   2022-02-03
Mesa's "Copper" Is A Step Closer To Being Brazed   Mesa   2022-01-14
Gentoo Linux Packages Up AMD ROCm, Makes Progress On RISC-V, LTO+PGO Python   Operating Systems   2022-01-08
Ubuntu Had A Great Year In Switching To Wayland, Continued Commercial Success   Ubuntu   2021-12-30
WXRD Is A New Wayland Compositor Focused On XR/VR Use-Cases   Wayland   2021-12-20
Slackware 15.0 Takes Another Step Closer To Release   Operating Systems   2021-11-18
Linux Patches Rewrite The Retpoline Rewrite Code - Possible Performance Benefit   Linux Security   2021-10-13
Canonical Announces Ubuntu Frame As A Full-Screen Shell Built On Mir   Ubuntu   2021-10-06
Mir 2.5 Released With Wayland Extension Updates For Better Handling On-Screen Keyboards   Ubuntu   2021-10-05
RadeonSI Enables DCC Stores For RDNA2 APUs To Squeeze Out More Performance   Radeon   2021-09-01
KDE Plasma 5.23 Will Be Another Exciting Release With Many Improvements Abound   KDE   2021-08-28
Devuan 4.0 Alpha Builds Updated For Debian 11 Stripped Of systemd   Debian   2021-07-19
Ubuntu Touch OTA-18 Released - Still Using Ubuntu 16.04, 20.04 Migration Ongoing   Ubuntu   2021-07-14
AMD's Linux Strides In H1'21 From FreeSync HDMI To PyTorch ROCm   AMD   2021-07-04
Debian 11 "Bullseye" Installer RC2 Released   Debian   2021-06-15
Intel Gallium3D Driver Merged Into Mesa 21.2 For Gen4 Through Haswell Graphics   Intel   2021-06-13
Canonical's Mir 2.4 Brings Numerous X11 + Wayland Enhancements   Ubuntu   2021-06-08
Open-Source Driver Flips On OpenGL ES 3.1 For Select NVIDIA GeForce 200 Series GPUs   Nouveau   2021-06-07
Crocus Gallium3D Nears Mainline Mesa For Gallium3D i965 Through Haswell Graphics   Intel   2021-06-05
GCC Rust Front-End Continues Advancing With Plans To Eventually Upstream   GNU   2021-05-29
Ubuntu Touch OTA-17 Released - Still Working Toward Ubuntu 20.04 Transition   Ubuntu   2021-05-13
Nouveau Working On Bringing Up Some OpenGL Compute Shader Support For NV50 Era GPUs   Nouveau   2021-05-01
Arch-Based Endeavour OS Spins Up April Release, Adds Sway Community Edition   Arch Linux   2021-04-18
Devuan 4.0 Alpha Builds Begin For Debian 11 Without Systemd   Debian   2021-04-16
Linux 5.12 Corruption, GNOME 40, AMD Milan, Rust In Linux-Next Made For An Exciting March   Phoronix   2021-04-01
The Most Popular AMD Linux/Open-Source News For Q1'2021   AMD   2021-03-31
Crocus: Working On Gallium3D For Old Intel Graphics   Intel   2021-03-24
System76 Introduces Thelio Mira Computers - Powered By AMD Ryzen 5000 Series   Hardware   2021-03-11
Mir 2.3.2 Released With Better XWayland HiDPI, Copy/Paste Between Wayland/XWayland   Ubuntu   2021-02-11
Ubuntu Core + Mir Is Powering Smart Exercise Mirrors   Ubuntu   2021-02-04
UBports Aiming For An Exciting 2021 With Ubuntu Touch   Ubuntu   2021-01-25
Qt Open-Source Downloads Temporarily Offline Due To Severe Hardware Failure   Qt   2021-01-20
Fedora Looks To Overhaul Its Community Outreach   Fedora   2021-01-12
Open-Source NVIDIA Support For Recent GPUs Is Poor But Now You Can Fake It For Testing   Nouveau   2021-01-12
PHP 8.0 Is Too Fresh For Fedora 34 That It Will Be Punted To F35 In The Autumn   Programming   2021-01-10
Ubuntu Had A Stellar 2020 From Ubuntu 20.04 LTS To Continued WSL, Cloud Popularity   Ubuntu   2020-12-29
Fedora Is Looking For Your Artwork, Photos, Recipes + Poetry   Fedora   2020-12-25
Phoronix Test Suite 10.2 Milestone 3 Released For The Latest In Open-Source Benchmarking   Phoronix Test Suite   2020-12-22
Mir 2.2 Released With Display Wall Capabilities, Composite Bypass On GBM-KMS   Ubuntu   2020-11-19
LLVM Has Fleshed Out Its Plan For Replacing "Master" With "Main"   LLVM   2020-11-14
Fedora Developers Discuss Retiring NTP, Deprecating SCP Protocol   Fedora   2020-11-02
Mir 2.1 Released With Some New Protocol Support, Many Fixes   Ubuntu   2020-09-29
Fedora 34 Change To Further Compress Install Media Rejected Due To Install Time Concerns   Fedora   2020-09-15
Mark Shuttleworth Now Plans To Restore Ubuntu's Community Council   Ubuntu   2020-09-13
Intel IWD 1.9 Released With New Capabilities   Intel   2020-09-05
Fedora 34 Aims To Shrink Its Install Media By Ramping Up Compression   Fedora   2020-08-28
MIR JIT Aiming For First Release Later This Year By Red Hat Developer   Programming   2020-08-25
MuQSS/CK's Con Kolivas Becoming Concerned Over The Increasing Size Of The Linux Kernel   Linux Kernel   2020-08-20
Wayland's Weston Compositor Introduces Kiosk/Fullscreen Shell   Wayland   2020-07-30
Mir 2.0 Released In Dropping Legacy Bits, New Platform Improvements   Ubuntu   2020-07-24
RadeonSI Lands Bits In Mesa 20.2 For Better Dealing With GPU Virtualization   Mesa   2020-07-22
Intel's IWD Daemon Has Been Fleshing Out WiFi Display Support   Intel   2020-07-19
Canonical Is Using Mir To Bring Flutter To Wayland   Ubuntu   2020-07-12
Mircade Still Being Worked On As A Confined Mir + Snap Based Launcher   Ubuntu   2020-07-04
EGMDE Is Still Being Hacked On As A Lightweight Mir Desktop   Ubuntu   2020-06-26
Mageia 8 Alpha 1 Released With Better ARM Support, Linux 5.7 Kernel   Operating Systems   2020-06-26
FSGSBASE Testing Is Encouraged Ahead Of Linux 5.9   Linux Kernel   2020-06-20
Phoronix Test Suite 9.8 Milestone 1 Readies Another Round Of Benchmarking Features   Phoronix Test Suite   2020-06-04
Ubuntu Touch OTA-12 Released With The Switch Finally To Unity 8 / Lomiri   Ubuntu   2020-05-13
Experimental Linux Live OS For Showcasing Wayland Updated With Latest Desktops   Wayland   2020-05-07
Mir 1.8 Released With HiDPI Improvements, Better Compatibility Outside Of Ubuntu   Wayland   2020-04-16
KWinFT: KDE's KWin Forked To Focus On Better Wayland Support, Modern Technologies   KDE   2020-04-15
Kdenlive 20.04 Beta Released With Continuing To Improve The Open-Source Video Editor   KDE   2020-03-28
LLVM 10.0-RC3 Released With The Final Expected Soon For This Big Compiler Update   LLVM   2020-03-05
DragonFlyBSD 5.8 Released For This Popular + Performant BSD Operating System   BSD   2020-03-03
Unity 8 Desktop Renamed To Lomiri   Ubuntu   2020-02-28
Mir 1.7.1 Released With X11 Support Promoted Out Of "Experimental" Phase   Ubuntu   2020-02-25
LLVM's Go Front-End Was Finally Dropped From The Official Source Tree   LLVM   2020-02-17
New Patches: AMD Live Migration Support For VMs With Secure Encrypted Virtualization   AMD   2020-02-13
DragonFlyBSD Improves Its TMPFS Implementation For Better Throughput Performance   BSD   2020-02-13
Mir's X11 Support Is Being Promoted From Experimental   Wayland   2020-02-09
Unity 8 + Mir Is Being Packaged Up For Debian   Debian   2020-02-06
Nouveau Still Pushing Forward In 2020 Thanks To Red Hat But Community Developers Leaving   Nouveau   2020-02-01
UBports' Unity 8 Has Working Wayland Support   Ubuntu   2020-01-31
Sony Now "Officially" Maintaining The Linux PlayStation Input Driver, But Leads To Interesting Problem   Hardware   2020-01-28