Linux Mint 18: Powered By Ubuntu 16.04, Coming This Summer

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Mint 18: Powered By Ubuntu 16.04, Coming This Summer

Clement Lefebvre has revealed more details about Linux Mint 18, the next major release of this popular, Ubuntu-derived Linux distribution...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Mint-18-Sarah

[killyou]

They should fix JavaScript mess and poor performance before anything else.

[rogerdv]

So, I guess they will go for Mir, not Wayland.

[pjezek]

If they will use Mir, it will be wrong decision. Cinnamon is a different enough from Gnome and Unity, some not trivial ajustments for Cinnamon can be expected in any case. Mark Shuttleworth shoult keep away from US dollar to prevent Ubuntu's future...

[brownsr]

Killyou - I have no idea what you mean and I doubt the distro will either. They always welcome detailed issues logged on their github site if you want to expand on any specific things there

[Fegr]

So, I guess they will go for Mir, not Wayland.

I asked last year about the Wayland situation. They said that Mint 18 will only support Xorg and they still not making even any concepts for Wayland. I guess we will see some Wayland (Mir) in 2018 with Mint 19.