Wayland, a New X Server For Linux 487
An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has a new article out on Wayland: A New X Server For Linux. One of Red Hat's engineers has started writing a new X11 server around today's needs and to eliminate the cruft that has been in this critical piece of free software for more than a decade. This new server is called Wayland and it is designed with newer hardware features like kernel mode-setting and a kernel memory manager for graphics. Wayland is also dramatically simpler to target for in development. A compositing manager is embedded into the Wayland server and ensures 'every frame is perfect' according to the project's leader."
Re:Does this... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Does this... (Score:5, Funny)
...year of Linux at last?
This sentence no verb and no desktop.
But does it run... (Score:3, Funny)
xclock? xeyes?
Wayland-Yutani (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Does this... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Two decades is more like it (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Its good to see Red Hat developers doing this (Score:5, Funny)
We're talking about X. You seem to have wandered onto some other topic. ;)
Re:Does this... (Score:5, Funny)
Getting it into the Ubuntu repos probably wouldn't hurt, either. (Sad that a single distro can have that much influence)
Wow. The Economy must be bad! People are getting their Ubuntus repossessed!
Re:Its good to see Red Hat developers doing this (Score:5, Funny)
Poor analogy, you can still use your buggy whip on your bicycle (especially tandem bicycles).
Re:Its good to see Red Hat developers doing this (Score:3, Funny)
Umm, did someone try to fix the buggy whip? Or did you mean Wayland is a buggy WIP?
The buggy whip example is to illustrate the attempt to mandate halting progress by hindering it with government intervention. It therefore doesn't really apply here.
Re:But does it run... (Score:5, Funny)
http://maemo.org/maemo_training_material/maemo4.x/html/maemo_Getting_Started/images/captures/xephyr_empty.png [maemo.org]
Re:But does it run... (Score:1, Funny)
If you stare at it long enough you'll see a sail boat.
Re:Does this... (Score:4, Funny)
And that a better X server isn't going to a lot of people to Linux.
There, fixed that for ya.
Re:Does this... (Score:4, Funny)
There, that for ya.
ugh! ug!
Re:There is alreeady a brainstorm... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Does this... (Score:4, Funny)
u!
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XSitOnIt and XRotateBuffers (Score:3, Funny)
The X approach to device independence is to treat everything like a MicroVAX framebuffer on acid.
-Don
PS: I do like the stuff that's been done pulling the good code out of X and developing decent libraries like Cairo!