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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. Pushed back, not forward by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For 13.10 and even now for 14.04, they're running everything in XMir. They actually pushed native Mir/Unity 8 BACK to 14.10.

  2. And this is the reason I've decided to leave. by joelholdsworth · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Dear Ubuntu,

    I have had 6 happy years using you every day. You showed me so many things - the world of Linux I never knew. I will never forget the time we've shared.

    But you've you've changed. You're not the OS I once loved. I'm sorry to have to tell you this. I don't wish to hurt you. But I have to tell you the truth...

    I've switched to Mint.

  3. Re:Multi Monitors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

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