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Re:Ubuntu 13.10 to ship with Mir instead of X by laumars on Friday July 12, 2013 @09:20AM (#6032401)
Some things are better to be standardised than diversified. eg networking protocols and display managers.
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Re:Ubuntu 13.10 to ship with Mir instead of X by rbanffy on Friday July 12, 2013 @04:12PM (#6034909)
AFAIK, a program written for X will run unmodified on an Ubuntu box running Mir.
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Re:Ubuntu 13.10 to ship with Mir instead of X by laumars on Saturday July 13, 2013 @05:42AM (#6037146)
Not exactly. X can run atop of Mir, but then you're adding additional bloat to what is already a rather bloated distro of Linux.
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