Ubuntu's Mir Gets Delayed Again

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 13, 2014 @04:30PM from the just-a-little-longer dept.

jones_supa writes "Delays keep piling up for the Mir display server on the Ubuntu desktop. After already being postponed multiple times, Mir might not be enabled by default on the Ubuntu Linux desktop until the 16.04 LTS release — in two years time! This was the estimate by Mark Shuttleworth in a virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit. Using Mir, Mark says, will lead to supporting more hardware, obtaining better performance, and 'do some great things' with the technology. He expects some users will start using Mir on the desktop over the next year. Mir is already packaged as an experimental option, along with an experimental Unity 8 desktop session."

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Re:This could be good news... by Alomex · 2014-03-13 18:53 · Score: 1, Flamebait

And you would be wrong. No commercial implementation of Unix uses X (NextStep, OSX, Android) and even Sun back in the day tried its own alternative (SunNews). Every single person who has gone deep into the bowels of the X beast says it sucks, including the X.org people.
But a few X fanbois think they know better 'cuz hmm erh.... network transparency!