Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" Beta Released, Ubuntu GNOME Has Experimental Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" Beta Released, Ubuntu GNOME Has Experimental Wayland

Today -- on Linux's 25th birthday -- marks the release of Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 1 for opt-in flavors participating in this "Yakkety Yak" milestone...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-16.10-Beta

[pal666]

i asked already, nevertheless, how much until ditching mir?

[cynic]

i asked already, nevertheless, how much until ditching mir?

my guess is no more than 2.5 years from now

[starshipeleven]

my guess is no less than 2.5 years from now

fixed.

[zamadatix]

fixed.

Why are you so confident it will be more than 2.5 years? I'd be surprised if they held out that long unless Mir is magically successful.

[jo-erlend]

What is the benefit of re-writing Mir using a forked Wayland-protocol?

[amehaye]

What is the benefit of re-writing Mir using a forked Wayland-protocol?

They don't have to re-write Mir, simply supporting the Wayland protocol would make Mir compatible with all Wayland clients.

[starshipeleven]

Why are you so confident it will be more than 2.5 years? I'd be surprised if they held out that long unless Mir is magically successful.

Because they usually conformed to common standards only when it was too late for the project to have any appeal anymore.

[starshipeleven]

What is the benefit of re-writing Mir using a forked Wayland-protocol?

Not having to develop Mir, and just taking most of the leg work already done from Weston or libweston.
Attracting more interest and contributions for Unity as if it runs on Wayland other distros can actually offer it like they offer GNOME/KDE/MATE/LXQt/XFCE and others.

[jo-erlend]

Not having to develop Mir, and just taking most of the leg work already done from Weston or libweston.
Attracting more interest and contributions for Unity as if it runs on Wayland other distros can actually offer it like they offer GNOME/KDE/MATE/LXQt/XFCE and others.

But Weston would still have to be forked and heavily patched in order for that to even work, right? Are you saying Weston is feature-compatible with Mir? That would be very surprising to me.