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Xorg-free Wayland Live CD that starts directly to Wayland
- AlexanderDhoore 13y agoI like how the free software community is very loose. Lots of jokes in the documentation. Python and Norwegian Blue parrots, for example. But naming your distro Rebecca Black Linux, might undermine credibility just a tiny bit. (But obviously you aren't hurting anyone, so: nice job on the wayland live cd!)
- claudius 13y agoLet’s just hope it is not a multi-seat OS.
- kunai 13y agoClever. :)
- moreentropy 13y agoFor a technology preview project the name is fine, albeit not googleable. I don't think that a project like this has to choose a name people can sell to the management. From my own experience, really chose something that is googleable. It's frustrating when you never have a change to be found when people type your project's name into google because it's an artist's name or a common word. And yes, i think finding a good name for a project is hard.
- kristofferR 13y agoGoogle is better than you think! ;) It's very Googleable. https://encrypted.google.com/webhp#sclient=psy-ab&q=rebecca+black+linux&oq=rebecca+black+linux https://encrypted.google.com/webhp#sclient=psy-ab&q=rebe...
- anonymous 13y agoIsn't her name also copyrighted? I mean, isn't it illegal to call your distro "Rebecca Black"?
- rcxdude 13y agoNot copyright, but possibly trademarked. Even in that case, it only applies to use in areas in which the mark is already being used. So while it would be trademark infringement to sell albums under that name, releasing an OS would be fine unless someone else is also planning on doing the same thing and applied for a trademark in that area.
- runlevel1 13y agoIt certainly could fall under a state's "right of publicity" laws.
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- trust-me 13y agoAfter reading your comment I assumed Rebecca Black is a porn star :D
- seanp2k2 13y agoRebecca Black Linux is probably a joke too re: Hannah Montana Linux (AKA "HML"): http://www.junauza.com/2011/04/3-linux-distros-that-you-might-never.html http://www.junauza.com/2011/04/3-linux-distros-that-you-migh...
- pudquick 13y agoI personally prefer Biebian: http://biebian.sourceforge.net/ http://biebian.sourceforge.net/
- mahrain 13y agoWorks pretty well in VMware Fusion, Kudos!
- rplacd 13y ago> I wrote a new login manager with Bash and Zenity and Expect (and Script) that fully runs on a Wayland server (weston). (!)
- yeasayer 13y agoDownloading 1.7GB from sourceforge is hard. Any chance of torrent?
- pepijndevos 13y agoI doubt anyone would mind if you seeded it.
- kierank 13y agoWhy, sourceforge has excellent global mirrors.
- kristofferR 13y agoDownload with DownThemAll, it's a great Firefox download manager extension. It supports multiple pieces, multiple mirrors and resuming, taking all the trouble out of downloading big files over http.
- PommeDeTerre 13y agoI'm curious why it's 1.7 GB in the first place. It initially sounded like a convenient way to quickly try out Wayland, but there must be a lot of unnecessary software included with it, thus making it quite inconvenient to try out.
- n3rdopolis 13y agoI do have lots of dev packages and lots of Wayland related software is installed, like the Wayland version of mplayer and gstreamer, and GTK, and Qt and SDL. Lots of people are asking about the 1.7GB, so I brought back my smaller ISO in my buildscript for the next version, which attempts to remove all dev packages and some other stuff: http://rebeccablackos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rebeccablackos?view=revision&revision=1266 http://rebeccablackos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rebeccablac...
- keithpeter 13y agoHas anyone had a look at what is in the iso? Just curious. It would be three hour download from local mirror here at present.
- phoboslab 13y agoSo, what exactly is Wayland?
- asperous 13y agoWayland is intended as a simpler replacement for X, easier to develop and maintain. - http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ Currently it's Display <- Compositor <- X11 Client <- X11 Server <- App Wayland: Display <- Compositor (Wayland) <- App
- kawsper 13y agoSo no more X11 apps over the internet (or network?)
- ihsw 13y ago> No, that is outside the scope of Wayland. To support remote rendering you need to define a rendering API, which is something I've been very careful to avoid doing. The reason Wayland is so simple and feasible at all is that I'm sidestepping this big task and pushing it to the clients. It's an interesting challenge, a very big task and it's hard to get right, but essentially orthogonal to what Wayland tries to achieve. Source: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_8 http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_8
- colanderman 13y agoTo support remote rendering you need to define a rendering API See, this makes no sense to me. The truth of this statement holds if I substitute s/remote/local/. The fact is, Wayland manages a shared resource via a well-known API. This is the very definition of client/server architecture. There's no additional technical hurdle to be crossed to support network transparency.
- rcxdude 13y agoYes, but the resources it passes around are handles to buffers in memory (as little copying as possible). Not so trivial to pass around the network (well, most networks). I suspect a VNC-like approach would work easiest and most generally, but performance would suffer (though I've found situations where VNC beats remote X11, even over very low latency connections).
- lifeisstillgood 13y agoWhat is waylands security like cf xorg?
- HNLogInShit 13y agoSo, it starts directly to pictures of whales, or what?
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- lvillani 13y agoIt's interesting to see how Canonical's announcement of Mir seemed to spur new interest around Wayland and an acceleration of its development, generating a new wave of announcements (i.e.: Gnome deciding to go "all wayland" by 3.12, etc).
- Zigurd 13y agoThat sure seems to have been a kick in the pants. More specifically, it spurred interest in using the Android HAL in the underpinnings of a Weston compositor. Having gotten that kick in the pants, I hope they can all just get along and resolve resource and schedule issues between two projects that look functionally identical now.