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

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.'"

Comments

XMir is dead.

[Anonymous Coward]

Ubuntu is barely used by anyone as it is (try to understand that Slashdot users are the vast minority)...XMir's usage rate will now be so low that it won't garner enough support to survive much longer.

Re:Uh yeah

[jedidiah]

That's the beauty of X. I can run a GUI on a machine that doesn't even have a framebuffer and I can do so from the other side of the planet.

When this comes up in the "inevitable future", will I be stuck running an entire desktop environment on that router and replicating that entire desktop through something like VNC?

Yeeech!