On 05/12/11 08:51 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: > On 5/12/11 11:48 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >>> Seeing that Ubuntu will replace GDM with LightDM in the next release: >> >> They're also moving away from GNOME& X11 towards their custom Unity >> desktop& Wayland. Seems like they're trying to fit more into the >> ChromeOS consumer desktop model and get away from the traditional >> *nix technical workstation desktop model. > > Ubuntu moving away from X11??
That's the long term plan they've announced - it will take years to get there, and probably still have a X server that can sit on top of Wayland to proxy legacy X applications (much like you can run cygwin/X on top of Windows or X11.app on top of Mac OS X to see X apps while their native window system does the actual rendering). http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551 is the original announcement. http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc/entry/is_wayland_going_to_replace was my more detailed response at the time. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
