First time accepted submitter slack_justyb writes “Matthew Garrett, former employee of Red Hat, comments on the current state of XMir and Canonical’s recent decision to not ship XMir as the default display server in Ubuntu 13.10. Noting the current issues outstanding in XMir, the features yet to be implemented, the security loopholes, and Intel’s recent rejection to support Mir in general. All of this leading Garrett to the conclusion that ‘It’s clear that XMir has turned into a larger project than Canonical had originally anticipated, but that’s hardly surprising.'”… First time accepted submitter slack_justyb writes “Matthew Garrett, former employee of Red Hat, comments on the current state of XMir and Canonical’s recent decision to not ship XMir as the default display server in Ubuntu 13.10. Noting the current issues outstanding in XMir, the features yet to be implemented, the security loopholes, and Intel’s recent rejection to support Mir in general. All of this leading Garrett to the conclusion that ‘It’s clear that XMir has turned into a larger project than Canonical had originally anticipated, but that’s hardly surprising.'”
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