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Is Shuttleworth Crazy, Brave, or Smart?

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Last week Mark Shuttleworth dropped the bomb that the next release of Ubuntu, 11.04, would ship with Unity as the default window manager. This caused a lot of concern throughout the community, but most were getting used to the idea, appeased by the knowledge that GNOME Shell would be but a few clicks away. But yesterday he went even further - he announced that Ubuntu would be moving to the Wayland graphical server as well. Has Shuttleworth lost his mind? Or does he know something we don't?

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skelband ·
After reading up on Wayland, it sounds like a well-timed refresh for the display component architecture. The architecture sure seems a lot simpler and perhaps we'll see an end to the strange effects noticed for some applications when using add-on compositors like compiz.

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