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.
Both Unity 8 and Ubuntu's new display server Mir will be available to try in Ubuntu 13.10. At least, that's the aim, anyway.
Unity 8 - the next major version of the Unity desktop - has been demoed running atop of Mir, Ubuntu's custom display server.
A day after its reveal the first video demos of Mir in action have been shown off by one of its developers, Thomas Voß.
With the announcement of the new Mir display server, Canonical have begun the next major, multi-device shift for the Unity project: Unity Next.
Canonical has today publicly confirmed that they are working on a new cross-platform displayer server for Ubuntu. Called ‘Mir‘, the X Window Server replacement is tasked with ‘enabling development of the next generation Unity’. Which, in yet another […]