On the evening before the first online Ubuntu Developer Summit, Canonical has revealed its plans for "Mir", a next-generation display server which will run as a system-level component to replace the X Window system.
The maintainer of KDE Plasma Compositor and Window Manager, Martin Gräßlin, has said that the future of KDE is with Wayland. There’s a big debate right now is about who is fit to replace the aging X Display Server, and it seems that Wayland is beginning to become the obvious choice, despite Canonical’s Mir announcement (their own display server).
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While the discussion surrounding the Wayland Display Server and Canonical's plans to deploy Ubuntu atop Wayland continue to be ongoing within our forums (here, here, and here) and elsewhere, some new technical capabilities and plans for Wayland have been discussed.
Even since Canonical decided that they are planning to ditch X.org and are planning to switch over to Wayland, I have been quite excited about the possibilities of Wayland. Today, we have more Wayland related good news – MeeGo might switch over to Wayland before the year ends.What Wayland?Wayland is a display server protocol for Linux.
On April 17, Canonical published details, in a security notice, about an X.Org X server vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.According to Canonical, the X server could be made to reveal keystrokes of other users.It was discovered that the X.Org X server did not properly clear input events in certain circumstances.
After Canonical announced they are building their own display manager to replace X and to squash the Ubuntu dreams of Wayland fans, they also announced Unity Next, a new session-level shell implementation build on Qt and QML. When Unity was first introduced back in 2010, people didn't like it.
KDE is a growing community with growing needs. The KDE Sysadmin team works hard to keep up, but lately the servers have been coming under some strain.
To help ease the situation, Canonical has donated a new server for the KDE Sysadmins to use. The server, named kundong, features an impressive 8 CPU cores, 6 GB of memory, and a 130 GB disk with space for several more disks as needed.
Canonical Systems Management and Monitoring Tool
Adds Dedicated Server
‘Landscape Dedicated Server’ Now Available For Pre-Order
On November 8, Canonical published details about Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in the Apache HTTP server.It was discovered that the mod_negotiation module incorrectly handled certain filenames, which could result in browsers beco
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