Yesterday, OMG! Ubuntu! published a news article stating that Canonical are working on their own display server. If you don't understand the technical details of a display server, what it's job is, and how applications talk to it, then you may think this is a good thing. You may think, “Linux is about choice” or “perhaps this will be better than the alternatives”. But you'd be wrong, horribly wrong.
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Monday, 4 February 2013
So, You want to Write your own Linux Display Server?
UPDATE: It's been confirmed that Ubuntu will be switching to a new display server called Mir. Canonical have posted some FUD about Wayland on the documentation site, and it turns out the Mir devs didn't even understand Wayland enough to make a decision.
Yesterday, OMG! Ubuntu! published a news article stating that Canonical are working on their own display server. If you don't understand the technical details of a display server, what it's job is, and how applications talk to it, then you may think this is a good thing. You may think, “Linux is about choice” or “perhaps this will be better than the alternatives”. But you'd be wrong, horribly wrong.
Yesterday, OMG! Ubuntu! published a news article stating that Canonical are working on their own display server. If you don't understand the technical details of a display server, what it's job is, and how applications talk to it, then you may think this is a good thing. You may think, “Linux is about choice” or “perhaps this will be better than the alternatives”. But you'd be wrong, horribly wrong.
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