On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 20:43 -0500, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > On 12/22, Josh Leverette wrote: > > No? wayland is a very separate project. It is not backwards compatible > > with X. It will run X programs in a copy of X. Nobody is panicking > > anyways. > > Yes, Wayland is a distinct project from X.org, but it, and all the work to > make it possible, has been done by X developers. > > It is backwards compatible with X, as you say - through a copy of X. Which > is not incompatible with what I said. > > I've seen a bunch of people panicking. Perhaps you have not read the > comments to Mark Shuttleworth's announcement? > > "Panicking" may be too strong a word, but plenty of threats to stop using > Ubuntu by people who don't understand Wayland isn't actually going to > negatively impact them. > So tell them X can run in Wayland. End of story. Your description is vague and inaccurate and will likely just create more confusion.
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