What makes us Red Hat

Re:What makes us Red Hat by dhemmerling on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @02:36PM (#14044435)

Ditching Unity + Mir, and returning to Gnome. Convergence is good. https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cl...

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Re:What makes us Red Hat by houst0n_ on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:34PM (#14044870)

Canonical are ditching Mir? I must have missed this one. Was this discussed here?

Page won't load for me but my first thought was this was a poor taste April fools ;)

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Re:What makes us Red Hat by keithpeter on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:00PM (#14045075)

"I’m writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell. We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS."

I checked the date of the post really carefully as well. That is certainly a change of direction.

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Re:What makes us Red Hat by houst0n_ on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:06PM (#14045120)

I guess unity was the only thing driving Mir then? Is dropping one the same as dropping both?

Seems like good news to me, having a significant player like canonical contributing to the community instead of fragmenting without much benefit can't be bad can it?

I don't use it on the desktop anyway, but I hope that moves in this direction are rewarded by the community.

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Re:What makes us Red Hat by keithpeter on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:44PM (#14045449)

My (limited) understanding is that Gnome includes Wayland as an integral component, and so reverting to Gnome as default desktop for 18.04 will preclude use of the Mir graphical server.

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Re:What makes us Red Hat by snuxoll on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:33PM (#14046284)

Also, one of the "selling points" of Mir was its ability to use Android drivers to make OEM adoption of Ubuntu Phone relatively easy.

If they're ditching mobile, there's literally no real benefit to Mir.

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Re:What makes us Red Hat by houst0n_ on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:54PM (#14045033)

Found it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14043631

Can't find a cached version of the actual ubuntu article though.

Edit: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_6qrnN...

No mention of mir though?

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Re:What makes us Red Hat by a3n on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:54PM (#14045035)

Huh. Maybe I'll move back upstream to Ubuntu. Although at this point LinuxMint works fine for me, so it's hard to see a compelling reason. But Ubuntu's desktop games are what finally drove me out, as a desktop.

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