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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I kindly disagree by stanlyb · 2013-06-27 05:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The problem is not that the complex code is "bad", but that there are many stupid developers using pretty much complex libraries and modules, and don't forget the copy/paste methodology, and the result is something that is "somehow" working, and extremely complex and hard to read. Well written and maintained code is always pleasure to read, no matter its complexity or the used libraries.
One more thing, give an idiot a hammer, and every problem he face would look to him like a nail.