Ubuntu's next generation display server Mir, developed by Canonical as a flexible alternative to Wayland and XServer, may be facing another delay on its way to the desktop.
In an impressive feat, Ubuntu has demoed a working port of Chromium running on Mir, Canonical's in-house, next-gen display server.
The Simple Direct Media layer (SDL), used in a growing number of high-profile games, has added support for Ubuntu's Mir display server.
Mir 0.1.4 has been released, bringing with it a raft of bug fixes, helpful developer tools and performance enhancements. Canonical’s in-house display server has been designed from the ground up to drive the Unity interface […]
Opponents of Mir are 'politically motivated', says Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth in a blog post announcing the name of Ubuntu 14.10.
The goal to enable XMir by default for supported graphics cards in Ubuntu 13.10 has been pushed back.
Mir developers have shared an older video demo of Mir that, they say, shows the 'experience and performance' users can expect to find soon.
Unity 8 has been demoed running on top of Mir. Ubuntu software developer Didier Roche shared a short clip of the Ubuntu Touch interface running natively on Mir. No Android surfaceflinger (What Ubuntu Touch currently uses), and […]
Intel has pulled XMir support from their Xorg driver branch just days after Canonical submitted it - a decision that has sparked controversy.
The final features are now landing in Mir just in time for feature freeze which is happening this Thursday, August 29th.
The KDE-based spin Kubuntu, as well as the lightweight distro Lubuntu, have both announced they have no plans to adopt Mir for their future releases.
Mir is to ship as the default display server in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu engineers have today announced.