Whatever happened to Wayland?

[Christopher Svanefalk]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Patrick Lists <
fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 10/21/2012 09:10 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf wrote:
>
>> Well,
>>
>> Back in 2010 I heard f15 will feature experimental wayland support (from
>> Alan Jackson AKA ajax). Anyone knows what's the latest update on that
>> issue? Will we ever gonna see wayland replacing X?
>>
>
> The Wayland project is very much alive and well.
>
> You can read the latest news about Wayland by keeping an eye on
> phoronix.com as Michael follows Wayland development pretty closely. Just
> search their site for Wayland and you get the latest news.
>
> As far as replacing X with Wayland goes, my guess it's a matter of time.
> Wayland 1.0 will be announced next week which means there's a stable
> API/ABI which projects now living on top of X can use to make their apps
> available on Wayland.
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
>
>
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I have not been following this closely, but it sure looks interesting.

What would be some key benefits of replacing X with Wayland?

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Christopher Svanefalk
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