Lead Mir Developer: 'Mir More Relevant Than Wayland In Two Years'

M-Saunders writes Canonical courted plenty of controversy with it announced Mir, its home-grown display server. But why did the company choose to go it alone, and not collaborate with the Wayland project? Linux Voice has an interview with Thomas Voss, Mir's lead developer. Voss explains how Mir came into being, what it offers, and why he believes it will outlast Wayland.

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[DoofusOfDeath]

It appears to be Slashdotted. Someone's got to show them how to use IIS!

Re:Full Disclosure: M-Saunders works for LinuxVoic

[geminidomino]

Follow the link? What are you, new?

Re:Not Invented Here

[bluefoxlucid]

Pretty much. "Mouthpiece for Canonical: Canonical-made System Better than Stupid Other System."

Re:I still don't see what's wrong with X

[mrchaotica]

It's not like 10 years ago it was enjoyable either to use a dumb terminal, and quite frankly I doubt it's improved (I think they were SUN dumb terminals connected to something I can't remember). These days you're still going to compete over resources over a extremely high latency link (relative to computer performance). Not to mention the increased use of graphical elements in the UI.

It's worse... these days we're making our dumb terminals using AJAX.