Article 3AYM1 Mir Had A Wild Year From Nearly Being Killed Alongside Unity 8 To Growing With Wayland

Mir Had A Wild Year From Nearly Being Killed Alongside Unity 8 To Growing With Wayland

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It was a heck of a year for Ubuntu's Mir display server from it starting off as the display server to the now-abandoned Unity 8 desktop and it surviving Canonical's cancelling of the Unity/convergence projects to now not only being fitted for IoT use-cases but gaining Wayland support with hopes some will use it as a Wayland compositor. This also went from Mir 1.0 nearly being released and back to the drawing board to Canonical now hiring more Mir developers and adding Mir to other Linux distributions: what a wild ride 2017 has been for this controversial project...
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