Minoca OS 0.4 Has X.Org Support, Available As A Coreboot Payload

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Minoca OS 0.4 Has X.Org Support, Available As A Coreboot Payload

The Minoca operating system is a "general purpose operating system written from scratch" but has a POSIX-like interface and is SMP-ready, network-capable, event-driven, and other modern features...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Minoca-OS-0.4-Released

[uid313]

Just as Linux is moving away from X.Org onto Wayland.

[dh04000]

Just as Linux is moving away from X.Org onto Wayland.

Wayland is designed around Linux specific architecture. Anyone else will have to add Linux-specific technology to themselves to support Wayland (BSD is currently porting LibInput, Linux style KMS, ect). Wayland has stated that they are uninterested in anything but Linux.

[bug77]

Just as Linux is moving away from X.Org onto Wayland.

Linux has been moving onto Wayland for over 5 years now. In the meantime, apps still add support for X. You do the math.

[JonathanM]

Wayland is designed around Linux specific architecture. Anyone else will have to add Linux-specific technology to themselves to support Wayland (BSD is currently porting LibInput, Linux style KMS, ect).

I'm no expert on Wayland, but as far as I know the Wayland protocol isn't Linux specific. It may be true that the current compositors and other software implementing the protocol are using Linux specific technologies, but it should be possible to build a Wayland based graphical stack for other operating systems.

Wayland has stated that they are uninterested in anything but Linux.

As a protocol it also isn't interested in Linux.

[babali]

It is interesting to see new OS.
I'd be curious to read an overview of linux vs magenta vs genode vs minoca.

[cb88]

Its a pretty classic problem.... you could add Wayland support in mesa for other operating systems that aren't quite Linux like. However, that code would probably bitrot in Mesa in a few releases as no one else writing mesa code is testing it ... its better to just support the same infrastructure that Linux provides as this leaves the duplication in one maintainable place as a kernel system, of the project you are adding it to so it's your responsibility to maintain that rather than burdening others with code you they don't use.

So, while Wayland itself is probably pretty portable over standard APIs and protocols... the only open source hardware acceleration software that supports it is Linux specific.

Any operating system that wants to support hardware drivers these days probably starts with the FreeBSD drm port... The drawback is that you'll probably just about always be a few releases behind Linux support. https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/fr...-graphics/wiki

[nomadewolf]

It is interesting to see new OS.
I'd be curious to read an overview of linux vs magenta vs genode vs minoca.

Don't forget RedoxOS, GNU HURD and ReactOS...

[Steffo]

Not interested in just another C based OS with nothing special design. They should contribute to Redox.

[dkasak]

Linux has been moving onto Wayland for over 5 years now. In the meantime, apps still add support for X. You do the math.

All major desktop environments and widget toolkits are moving to Wayland. The developers who currently maintain X and its drivers are behind Wayland. You do the math. The length of time between the concept of Wayland and now is not particularly relevant - it's not some kind of race.As for apps still "adding support for X" ... can you clarify what exactly you mean?