Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-01)

[poma]

On 02.04.2014 15:29, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On 04/02/2014 08:20 AM, poma wrote:
>> On 02.04.2014 13:54, Liam Proven wrote:
>>> On 2 April 2014 10:37, Patrick O'Callaghan
>>> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> but a redesign of the X protocol, i.e. it's not ABI
>>>> compatible.
>>>
>>>
>>> No, it's not a redesign of anything. It is an entirely new GUI
>>> layer which entirely replaces X.11 - as has been done in both
>>> Android and Mac OS X and which Canonical are attempting to do
>>> with Mir.
> 
>> Mir was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986
>> to 2001, owned at first by the Soviet Union and then by Russia. Mir
>> was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from
>> 1986 to 1996.
> 
>> How much is Tour de Mir per capita?
> 
> 
> I realize you're likely being a troll, but Mir is Canonical/Ubuntu's
> alternative to Wayland. It's another post-X11, compositing display
> server meant to address basically the same needs that Wayland does.
> Canonical made a big noise a few years ago that Wayland was the wrong
> approach and tried to get support for its alternative, but years later
> Wayland is nearly ready for use and Mir has seen countless delays, as
> well as zero distributions adopting it outside of Ubuntu.
> 
> 

Maybe I should ask Mark. :)


poma