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The article was written a few years before Canonical announced that they were developing their own display server called Mir. Back then in 2013 it looked as if
by Findecanor 3y ago
The article was written a few years before Canonical announced that they were developing their own display server called Mir.
Back then in 2013 it looked as if it could have become Wayland's biggest rival as a successor to X11.
Apparently, Mir is still being actively developed at Canonical, but with focus towards embedded systems.
The original plan had been to base it on libraries borrowed from Android, but those have been replaced with parts of Wayland. It looks as if it can also be hosted on top of Wayland or X11.
Official site: https://mir-server.io/ https://mir-server.io/
- goku12 3y agoThere is a little bit more to that story. Canonical had initially chosen Wayland to be the successor of X11. Then they dropped that plan in favor of the in-house Mir project, citing problems with Wayland. The Wayland developers debunked all of those points, but Canonical just neglected the reply. As I remember it, it was this incident that irked a lot of people and gave Wayland the push to become what it is today. Wayland wasn't as popular before that.
- pantalaimon 3y agoMir is a Wayland compositor these days