I don't consider their move with Mir good, but if they attempt to make the drivers sharable with Wayland and actually push Nvidia and others to produce these drives - it will be a positive outcome.
Regards, Hillel. On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > Bed time now, only very quickly skimmed, so... Canonical's more-or-less > the "good guys" now? > It will be completely open to use & contribute to, even for those outside > "Ubuntu world"? > Sooo confused.. must sleep... Thanks! > > > On 12/03/13 3:17 AM, Hillel Lubman wrote: > > This looks like a positive development: > https://plus.google.com/116812394236590806058/posts/SwC1CheXX65 > > > Hopefully we'll contribute back not just an awesome display server in the > > form of Mir and an awesome desktop environment in the form of Unity, but > > also low-level improvements that can be used by Wayland compositors. I'm > > particularly excited about our engagements with NVIDIA and AMD; although > > it's early days, I'm hopeful we can get a solution for “but what about > > proprietary drivers?” not just for Mir, but for everyone. > > If that will be true, things can turn out good for Wayland as well. > > Regards, > > Hillel. > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So no one else concerned about this? Where do you think the community >> can go from here? >> Can Sailfish Alliance (or someone else) really beat Canonical to the >> punch w/a Wayland based smartphone (or similar form-factor) next yr?* >> I have my worries/concerns/doubts.... >> >> *And with a Wayland implementation that's *fully* competitive with Mir? >> >> >> On 8/03/13 8:22 AM, Nathan wrote: >> >> Hey, I'd love to know what folks here think about this, got some thoughts >> on the matter? >> Phoronix has been covering it all heavily, a recent article by them: >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMyMDk >> >> On 6/03/13 4:34 AM, Jukka Eklund wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I think you might catch Mer folks better via Mer mailing list. >> >> -Jukka >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> So no thoughts on this from MeR/Nemo/Sailfish folk? Would really love to >>> hear them... >>> >>> On 5/03/13 4:52 AM, Nathan wrote: >>> >>>> This is pretty big: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec >>>> I thought Canonical were "basically" just using tweaked Cyanogenmod + >>>> libhybris + a QML shell on top (boring/non-innovative). >>>> But it appears they're moving more & more towards their own complete OS >>>> stack (much more akin to Sailfish)... >>>> >>>> I really hope they intend to work with Wayland/Weston, & perhaps even >>>> merge (where practical) efforts longer-term into one truly F/OSS project. >>>> But I have my doubts/concerns... If they do, MeR/Nemo/Sailfish could >>>> stand to benefit a lot, & conversely so could Canonical. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Nath >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >>> >> >> >> >> > >
