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Wayland, a New X Server For Linux

Posted by kdawson on from the at-least-it's-not-called-Y dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has a new article out on Wayland: A New X Server For Linux. One of Red Hat's engineers has started writing a new X11 server around today's needs and to eliminate the cruft that has been in this critical piece of free software for more than a decade. This new server is called Wayland and it is designed with newer hardware features like kernel mode-setting and a kernel memory manager for graphics. Wayland is also dramatically simpler to target for in development. A compositing manager is embedded into the Wayland server and ensures 'every frame is perfect' according to the project's leader."

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  1. Re:Does this... by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...year of Linux at last?

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  2. Re:Does this... by fxkr · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...year of Linux at last?

    This sentence no verb and no desktop.

  3. But does it run... by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 2, Funny

    xclock? xeyes?

    1. Re:But does it run... by ArsonSmith · · Score: 4, Funny

      http://maemo.org/maemo_training_material/maemo4.x/html/maemo_Getting_Started/images/captures/xephyr_empty.png

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    2. Re:But does it run... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      If you stare at it long enough you'll see a sail boat.

  4. Wayland-Yutani by spankey51 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wayland-Yutani, "Building better X-servers"

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  5. Re:Does this... by imbaczek · · Score: 5, Funny

    He accidentally the whole verb and the whole desktop.

  6. Re:Two decades is more like it by xoundmind · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm still stuck on the Andrew Window Manager.

  7. Re:Its good to see Red Hat developers doing this by CarpetShark · · Score: 5, Funny

    While I'm a firm believer in "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

    We're talking about X. You seem to have wandered onto some other topic. ;)

  8. Re:Does this... by lotho+brandybuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    Getting it into the Ubuntu repos probably wouldn't hurt, either. (Sad that a single distro can have that much influence)

    Wow. The Economy must be bad! People are getting their Ubuntus repossessed!

  9. Re:Its good to see Red Hat developers doing this by Fred_A · · Score: 4, Funny

    Poor analogy, you can still use your buggy whip on your bicycle (especially tandem bicycles).

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  10. Re:Its good to see Red Hat developers doing this by ArsonSmith · · Score: 2, Funny

    Umm, did someone try to fix the buggy whip? Or did you mean Wayland is a buggy WIP?

    The buggy whip example is to illustrate the attempt to mandate halting progress by hindering it with government intervention. It therefore doesn't really apply here.

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  11. Re:Does this... by BronsCon · · Score: 4, Funny

    And that a better X server isn't going to a lot of people to Linux.

    There, fixed that for ya.

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  12. Re:Does this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    There, that for ya.

    ugh! ug!

  13. Re:There is alreeady a brainstorm... by martin-boundary · · Score: 3, Funny

    If they use the code in Ubuntu, will they name the meta package yutani?

  14. Re:Does this... by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Funny

    u!

    !

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  15. XSitOnIt and XRotateBuffers by SimHacker · · Score: 2, Funny

    The X approach to device independence is to treat everything like a MicroVAX framebuffer on acid.

    -Don

    PS: I do like the stuff that's been done pulling the good code out of X and developing decent libraries like Cairo!

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