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Ex-Red Hat Employee Matthew Garrett Comments On the State of XMir

Posted by timothy on from the no-longer-a-mir-trifle dept.

First time accepted submitter slack_justyb writes "Matthew Garrett, former employee of Red Hat, comments on the current state of XMir and Canonical's recent decision to not ship XMir as the default display server in Ubuntu 13.10. Noting the current issues outstanding in XMir, the features yet to be implemented, the security loopholes, and Intel's recent rejection to support Mir in general. All of this leading Garrett to the conclusion that 'It's clear that XMir has turned into a larger project than Canonical had originally anticipated, but that's hardly surprising.'"

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  1. Re:XMir is dead. by kthreadd · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Do you know of any actual popularity statistics? Pretty much every "non-techie" Linux user I know runs Ubuntu, and quite a lot of the techies too. That's not representational of course, and some real hard numbers would be interesting.

  2. Re:XMir is dead. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Who runs an Ubuntu web server? Or router?

    The company I currently work for has several thousand servers all running Ubuntu Server, which in turn is running OpenStack and the supporting infrastructure.

    Ubuntu is what you use if you want to use Debian but need commercial support (and yes, we have made use of that support on several occasions)