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Ubuntu 13.10 to ship with Mir instead of X

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Canonical top man Mark Shuttleworth says that Mir, the company's ground-up replacement for the X Window System graphics stack, is almost complete, and that the technology will ship with the next version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution in October.

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r_a_trip ·
Mir is nowhere near ready. For now it is just a barely working shim underneath X.org and X.org is still rendering everything. Only the final picture (pre-rendered by X.org) is what Mir throws on the screen.

Even Unity(7) itself is still X11 dependent and also runs on this X-on-Mir shim. Ubuntu users are in for a world of pain.

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