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Wayland 1.7.0 Marks an Important Release

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

jones_supa writes: The 1.7.0 release of Wayland is now available for download. The project thanks all who have contributed, and especially the desktop environments and client applications that now converse using Wayland. In an official announcement from Bryce Harrington of Samsung, he says the Wayland protocol may be considered 'done' but that doesn't mean there's not work to be done. A bigger importance is now given to testing, documentation, and bugfixing. As Wayland is maturing, we are also getting closer to the point where the big Linux distros will eventually start integrating it to their operating system.

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  1. Remoting status using Wayland? by caseih · · Score: 2, Interesting

    After it was announced a year or two ago, I have heard nothing about RDP support in Wayland. Is it getting to the point that Wayland will have first-class support for transparently remoting apps with RDP? Anyone know the status on this? There's precious little info about this on the interwebs, and no real information on what the workflow looks like, say with ssh forwarding.

    1. Re:Remoting status using Wayland? by PPH · · Score: 2, Interesting

      gtkclient->ssh->intertubes->ssh->gtkapp

      Which means that I have to install/maintain a gtkapp on ever desktop that needs to access gtkclient. No thanks. In a corporate environment, that could be thousands of desktops.

      This is the sort of architecture that only Microsoft could love, with per-seat licenses for each user.

      With X, it is: Xclient->network->Xserver

      And Xserver is available on numerous OSs, so there's no desktop lockin.

      --
      Have gnu, will travel.
  2. Re:Linux distros by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    anti-systemd trolls

    Nice revisionist history. It's the systemd guys that have been acting like children and constantly attack Linux users for pointing-out bugs. After posting a reproduction script to the mailing list about a problem with systemd ignoring the exit status from a script, I was told by one of the main devs that he hoped my mother got cancer. Joke's on him. She died of cancer in 1977. You also have kids like http://slashdot.org/~Eunuchswear here that post some nasty replies, and it appears from looking at the moderation on the posts he is replying to that he or his friends have mod points and are using them to attack people that post about systemd problems.

    If the systemd guys spent as much time programming as they did attacking us, then we probably wouldn't have anything to complain about in the first place!

    Posting as AC because two of the last three times I posted one of the systemd punks moderated my posts down. I don't want to lose more karma to those trolls.

  3. Re:Linux distros by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    fuck you...I guess your kind would rather whine

    Yeah, that's really productive.

    I bet Red Hat is regretting associating themselves with systemd by hiring its creator and main developer. I know when I call their support that they're fed-up with dealing with systemd-created problems.

  4. Re:True nature and purpose by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Yes, because all those things that sucked in XWindow, now suck AND do not work, which is some kind of a plus. The food here is bad, but at least the portions are small.