Canonical To Ship Mir Display Server In Ubuntu 13.10

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 27, 2013 @05:43AM 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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Re:And this is the reason I've decided to leave. by MBGMorden · 2013-06-27 06:40 · Score: 4, Informative

No its still based on the current version of Ubuntu (except LMDE which is Debian-based). Remember than not even all the official versions of Ubuntu use Unity. Xubuntu for example "ships" with XFCE as the desktop and works quite well.

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