There has been a lot of negativity in the software community towards
Canonical recently after they announced the development of the Mir display
server. The Wayland camp got pissed, but the reality is that Wayland has been
dragging their feet for years and is still pretty much unusable for even the
most basic tasks. If it wasn't for for Canonical talking about Wayland a few
years ago, nobody would really know what Wayland is.
People are pissing and moaning about Mir, but it will be released under the
GPLv3. Get over it Wayland fanbois.
Unity Next should be interesting too as it moves Unity to QT5. I believe this
will be under a GPL license like Mir. The Compiz developer threw a hissy and
left after that announcement. Oh well.. Compiz was a resource hog and
overrated anyways. I also read that he was the only person working on Compiz
and Ubuntu was the only major distribution that was using it and keeping the
development going. Bye by Compiz.
Canonical is still supporting 12.04 for 4 more years and Trisquel 6 is safe
for now. Maybe re-evaluation of the code base should happen in a year when
14.04 comes out. If the Ubuntu base is still where you want to go a year for
now, then go for it. If its Debian, then God save your souls in maintaining
it.
