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The next release of Ubuntu, version 13.10, will have the new display server Mir as the default, according to Olli Ries, the engineering director for Ubuntu and Mir.

The Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution is produced by Canonical, a company founded and led by Mark Shuttleworth, an entrepreneur and former Debian developer.

Mir was announced back in March by Ries, because, according to him, "none of the existing solutions would allow us to implement our vision without taking major compromises which would come at the cost of user experience and quality."

Most of the Linux world is looking to move from the venerable X.org display server to Wayland which is in development. For a while it looked as though Canonical would also go with the pack - until the announcement in March.

Ries said in an announcement on June 27 that Mir had evolved from a proof-of-concept, when announced, to a high-quality, high-performance component "that we think will deliver the fastest, cleanest display experience for the Ubuntu platform. We are confident that all desktop environments and derivatives will work well throughout the transition, based on our ability to provide a full X compatibility layer."

The migration path Ries laid out for the transition to Mir is given below:

Ubuntu 13.10: XMir on Mir by default, with a fallback session to X where there is no Mir driver support, supported for nine months.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: XMir as default with the fallback session removed, full Mir driver support, traditional LTS support for five years

Ubuntu 14.10 and beyond: Mir stack as default, including rootless X support for legacy X applications, supported for nine months.

(XMir: X & Unity7 running on top of the system compositor Mir. Mir stack: Mir as system compositor with Unity 8 as session shell on top.)

Along with the announcement, Canonical has also released a video of various desktop environments running on XMir on Mir on Ubuntu.

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Sam Varghese has been writing for iTWire since 2006, a year after the site came into existence. For nearly a decade thereafter, he wrote mostly about free and open source software, based on his own use of this genre of software. Since May 2016, he has been writing across many areas of technology. He has been a journalist for nearly 40 years in India (Indian Express and Deccan Herald), the UAE (Khaleej Times) and Australia (Daily Commercial News (now defunct) and The Age). His personal blog is titled Irregular Expression.

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