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Canonical To Ship Mir Display Server In Ubuntu 13.10

Posted by timothy on from the das-gefaellt-mir dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Canonical has announced today that they intend to ship the Mir Display Server by default in Ubuntu 13.10, rather than Ubuntu 14.04 as originally planned. They moved ahead their Mir adoption since the code is materializing and they want Mir/XMir widely tested prior to the Ubuntu 14.04 Long-Term Support release. Mir in Ubuntu 13.10 will be using the XMir X11 compatibility layer to run the Unity 7 desktop and there will be fallback support for running an X.Org Server if the graphics drivers don't support Mir."

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  1. Exciting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    If everything was the same in every OS, things would be very boring.

  2. A bit late! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Surely its a futile endeavour after http://science.slashdot.org/story/00/10/03/189218/mir-likely-to-be-deorbited-updated this

  3. Re:I kindly disagree by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wrong article ;) You must be using unity.

  4. Re:Multi Monitors by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hard to say. As of now, the only multi-monitor mode working is mirroring.

    Can we choose which axis the displays are mirrored around?
    Upside-down and left-to-right are so passé; a skewed mirroring axis would be better.

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