Ubuntu going through major changes - What's the Ubuntu Studio standpoint in all this?

[Len Ovens]

On Tue, March 5, 2013 7:42 pm, lukefromdc at hushmail.com wrote:
> The whole Mir mess might become another factor.  I assume it will be  a
> long
> time before any media application gets ported to Mir, Wayland, or anything
> other than X.  The fragmentation mess is being brought up elsewhere, with
> fears that applications written for Mir will run only on Ubuntu, etc.
>
> This could be a real mess for all distros based on Ubuntu, even though
> both Mir and Wayland retain X compatability layers. X is heavy enough
> by itself, running X applications through something like this will slow
> down
> marginal or fully-loaded machines.
>
> I also expect that older DE's and things like XFCE, Cinnamon, etc will
> be ported to another display server either late or never.
>
> For those of us not interested in joining the "Tablet/Touch Revolution"
> it will be crucial that X stays in repo until all DE's have been ported
> over,
> or permanently.

Lets see, cdrecord (replaced by broken wodem), ffmpeg (replaced by avlib),
init.d (replaced by upstart or systemd), x.... I guess the next thing is a
unique, non-linux kernel...

I am sure the list is bigger.


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Len Ovens
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