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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.
Wayland, a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol, which can be used as a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a Wayland client itself, has reached version 1.0.3.
Wayland 1.1 is a major release in the series and integrates a great deal of changes and improvement
Wayland, a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol, which can be used as a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a Wayland client itself, has reached version 1.0.
Highlights of Wayland 1.0:
• Changes to make the API thread safe have been implemented.
hope they make super cool display server :-p
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTMxODA
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in the end it seems that all of the "advantages" of Mir seem to be features already implemented in Wayland or could be achieved without touching the core Wayland protocol.
I would like to know if there's a ppa and instructions I can use to safely test wayland on my system. i'm running Ubuntu Gnome 12.10 beta. Thanks. (I've tried the Wayland Live CD, but cannot get it to boot off my flash drive. So Looking for another way to test and experiendce wayland). thanks.
Ubuntu has been talking about moving to Wayland for around 2 years. They even had some actual attempt to make it system composer for 12.10. It failed as Wayland wasn't ready.
But now wayland folks released a stable release and they'll keep backward compatibility from that point.
I'm really hoping to see Wayland making its way in the base install of Ubuntu 13.04.
Wayland, a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol, which can be used as a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a Wayland client itself, has reached version 1.0.3.Wayland 1.0.3 is a maintenance release and only some test suite rewrite and fixes make up the bulk of
Wayland, a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol, which can be used as a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a Wayland client itself, has reached version 1.0.1.
Wayland 1.0.1 is a maintenance release fixing a number of bugs in from the 1.0.0 version.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTIxMzA
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Wayland 1.0 along with the reference Weston 1.0 reference compositor were officially released on Monday.
Kristian Høgsberg after developing the project the past four years officially announced version 1.0 for Wayland.
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