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Will Wayland finally make it as system composer in 13.04?

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http://askubuntu.com – 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. What are the chances of this happening? (HowTos)

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Submitted by funckax on 11/21/2012 – Made popular on 11/21/2012

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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.

Wayland 1.0 Officially Released 30 weeks 4 hours ago

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.

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.

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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 1.0.3 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.

Highlights of Wayland 1.0:

• Changes to make the API thread safe have been implemented.

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

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.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTIxMzc

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Less than one day after the official release of Wayland 1.0 there is a new Wayland compositor that emerges. This new compositor for Wayland is dubbed "Green Island" and leverages Qt, QtQuick, and QML for creating a new and unique Linux desktop experience.