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Trying Out Wayland With Rebecca Black

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For those that may have extra time this weekend and have been meaning to try out the experimental Wayland Display Server, one of the easiest ways to try out this eventual X.Org Server replacement is by using a Wayland LiveCD that's dubbed Rebecca Black. Besides including a recent snapshot of Wayland, it also integrates the support for various tool-kits and other applications...

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djohnston ·
it's hardly a live CD. More like a live DVD.
gus3 ·
I tried it.

The only GUI thing I could get it to do, was launch a shell. All attempts to launch Wayland programs failed, with the message "could not load module 'wayland'."

On my system at least, this was an unmitigated disaster. The only worse thing it could have done was format my hard drives.

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