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April 6, 2012 04:05 pm

Update On Wayland and X11 Support


Phoronix was at the Linux Foundation CollaborationSummit and has two articles on the status of Wayland and X11integration. The second talk was about the currentstatus of Wayland, and its impending release (version 1.0 is duethis summer). The developers also have an experimental GNOME-Shellworking on Wayland. There's a (kind of shaky) video of thistalk (attached, and at youtube for those wanting the html5version). The first talk (by Keith Packard) covered X11support on Wayland. It's basically ready to go, but windowmanagement is implemented only as a hack right now. The next yearcould be quite exciting for GNU/Linux and BSD users as distributionsbegin including Wayland as an alternative to X.org.

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