Wayland 1.1 Released — Now With Raspberry Pi Support

An anonymous reader writes "Six months after the release of Wayland 1.0, versions 1.1 of Wayland and Weston have been released. Wayland/Weston 1.1 brings new back-end support for the Raspberry Pi, Pixman renderer, Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), and FBDEV frame-buffer device. Wayland/Weston 1.1 also introduces a modules SDK, supports the EGL buffer-age extension, touch-screen calibration support, and numerous optimizations and bug-fixes."

Comments

Re:remote desktop vs windows

[fnj]

What does ssh have to do with graphical applications? Why on earth do you feel the need to draw that connection?

If our anonymous coward had a single clue, he would know that ssh is the preferred way to forward X11 SECURELY.

Re:remote desktop vs windows

[Wesley Felter]

Wayland's native remoting protocol is under development but "only at the proof of concept state". http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~krh/weston/log/?h=remote http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-April/008555.html

All the people talking about RDP keep in mind that that's a stopgap and won't be needed long-term.

Re:Why so much Wayland?

[ssam]

I should probably say I am not anti wayland (though X11 works well for me on a wide range of hardware including my phone). But the linux.conf.au 2013 talk makes a pretty good case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44 (it should also be required viewing before anyone is allowed to comment on wayland)