Canonical Announces Mir: A New Display Server Not On X11 Or Wayland

An anonymous reader writes "On the Ubuntu Wiki is now the Mir specification, which is a next-generation display server not based on X11/X.Org or Wayland. Canonical is rolling their own display server for future releases of Ubuntu for form factors from mobile phones to the desktop. Mir is still in development but is said to support Android graphics drivers, open-source Linux graphics drivers, and they're pressuring hardware vendors with commercial closed-source drivers to support it too. They also said X11 apps will be compatible along with GTK3 and Qt/QML programs. Canonical isn't using X11 or Wayland with their future Unity desktop as they see many shortcomings from these existing and commonly used components."

Comments

Perhaps They Forgot

[FrankDrebin]

But didn't Mir come crashing down in fiery chunks?

Re:Perhaps They Forgot

[Nimey]

It was also covered in an unkillable space fungus.

Re:Good luck with that!

[bill_mcgonigle]

* and should you succede against all odds, we would all benefit.

It's possible they have a small team who has overcome all the corner cases discovered by the Xorg, XBC, and Wayland folks over the past couple decades by fundamentally re-factoring the problem into a more correct solution and have achieved excellent performance by doing so.

It's also possible that space aliens gave them this technology, but that's only slightly more likely.

Obligatory XKCD

[idontgno]

http://xkcd.com/927/

Re:Canonical swirling down to irrelevance.

[MrEricSir]

I'm still waiting for him to post the common Linux upstream package management system...