Moving On From An X.Org World To Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Moving On From An X.Org World To Wayland

Taking place in Canberra, Australia last week was Linux.Conf.Au. The videos from LCA 2013 have now been uploaded and one of the talks likely to excite Phoronix readers is Daniel Stone's perspective of X.Org and Wayland...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI5NTI

[frign]

I would love to see this video, but it does not work, as the mirror refuses the connection. Am I the only one to experience this?

[nerdopolis]

I would love to see this video, but it does not work, as the mirror refuses the connection. Am I the only one to experience this?

The video is not working for me as well.
Perhaps the server is getting bombarded.

[frign]

The video is not working for me as well.
Perhaps the server is getting bombarded.

As long as it is not Microsoft...

[RealNC]

This is the direct link to the video:

http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.con...land_and_X.mp4

[frign]

This is the direct link to the video:

http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.con...land_and_X.mp4

Thanks for the effort, but I know how to get the URL. It seems to be a server-issue.

[kaprikawn]

I had to wget the video, couldn't access it through the browser.

[frign]

Ok, I digged in a bit and found out that you can download the video using public-ftp (bypassing the faulty http-handling) with this URL, shouldn't even wget work for you:

ftp://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux....land_and_X.mp4

[kaprikawn]

Finished watching it now, it was very interesting. I'm not sure if that's because it said exactly what I was looking for it to say though i.e. X sucks and we should replace it with Wayland asap. It's a very good video for the X apologist posts though, of which there's plenty of examples on in the Phoronix forums. Every time someone says Wayland isn't a replacement for X, and X isn't going anywhere anytime soon blah blah, this video is the perfect reply.

God, I can't wait to try a Gentoo install with Wayland and excluding X in my use flags.

[MartinN]

What an awesome presentation! It pointed out everything that X suffers from. He sooo nailed it.

Thank you for the hard work!