Canonical Needs Your Help to Figure Out a Direction for Ubuntu's Mir/Wayland

Canonical Needs Your Help to Figure Out a Direction for Ubuntu's Mir/Wayland

Wayland support advanced a lot for Mir lately

  • Linux
  • By Marius Nestor
  • April 11th, 2017
UBports to Provide Legacy Support for BQ Ubuntu Phones, Create Their Own Store

UBports to Provide Legacy Support for BQ Ubuntu Phones, Create Their Own Store

They will eventually update Ubuntu Touch to Ubuntu 16.04

GTK+ Implements Window Focus Tracking and Window Properties for Ubuntu's Mir

GTK+ Implements Window Focus Tracking and Window Properties for Ubuntu's Mir

GTK+ 3.22.8 & 3.89.4 releases are now available for download

  • Linux
  • By Marius Nestor
  • March 21st, 2016
Nvidia 364.12 Linux Driver Out Now with Vulkan 1.0, Wayland, and Mir Support

Nvidia 364.12 Linux Driver Out Now with Vulkan 1.0, Wayland, and Mir Support

Support for the Mir display server was also improved

  • Linux
  • By Silviu Stahie
  • February 17th, 2016
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to Ship with Full Support for Vulkan in Mir Display Server

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to Ship with Full Support for Vulkan in Mir Display Server

Canonical is jumping on the Vulkan train

  • Linux
  • By Marius Nestor
  • February 4th, 2016
Ubuntu Phone Users Getting Patch for Mir Bug That Made Their Devices Unstable

Ubuntu Phone Users Getting Patch for Mir Bug That Made Their Devices Unstable

Ubuntu Touch OTA-9.5 is still in heavy development

  • Linux
  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 18th, 2016
Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 Gets New Mir Update with Fix for Pinch-to-Zoom Reliability

Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 Gets New Mir Update with Fix for Pinch-to-Zoom Reliability

The Release Candidate image is now available for testing

Mir Regression Is Being Patched for Ubuntu Touch, Xenial Branch Still in the Works

Mir Regression Is Being Patched for Ubuntu Touch, Xenial Branch Still in the Works

Some features are being delayed due to GCC 5.3

GTK+ Adds Visual Updates to the Adwaita Theme, Improves Wayland Support

GTK+ Adds Visual Updates to the Adwaita Theme, Improves Wayland Support

GTK+ 3.19.5 is now available for download and testing

  • Linux
  • By Silviu Stahie
  • November 27th, 2015
Ubuntu with Mir Desktop to Have Full Support for Multi-Monitor Display

Ubuntu with Mir Desktop to Have Full Support for Multi-Monitor Display

Developers are working to make this feature reliable

  • Linux
  • By Silviu Stahie
  • November 18th, 2015
Ubuntu 16.10 to Have Unity 8, Mir, and Snappy Personal as Default

Ubuntu 16.10 to Have Unity 8, Mir, and Snappy Personal as Default

This is the latest target for Unity 8 launch

  • Linux
  • By Silviu Stahie
  • November 9th, 2015
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Unity 8 to Run GTK+ Apps Natively

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Unity 8 to Run GTK+ Apps Natively

Ubuntu developers have big plans for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Ubuntu's Mir Display Server Reaches Version 0.16 with Mir-on-X Refinements, More

Ubuntu's Mir Display Server Reaches Version 0.16 with Mir-on-X Refinements, More

Mir 0.16.0 is now available for download

  • Linux
  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 29th, 2015
Ubuntu Developer Proposes a Method for Detecting Native Ubuntu Touch Apps

Ubuntu Developer Proposes a Method for Detecting Native Ubuntu Touch Apps

To distinguish between native Touch apps and non-Touch apps

  • Linux
  • By Marius Nestor
  • September 24th, 2015
Ubuntu Touch Receives New Mir, Unity 8, Ubuntu Download Manager, and Web Browser

Ubuntu Touch Receives New Mir, Unity 8, Ubuntu Download Manager, and Web Browser

The Gallery and Web Browser apps have been updated as well

Watch: Unity 8 and Mir Running on a Nexus 7 Tablet Connected to an External Monitor

Watch: Unity 8 and Mir Running on a Nexus 7 Tablet Connected to an External Monitor

Canonical guys demoing the Ubuntu convergence

Canonical Shows X Apps Running Under Mir and Unity 8 - Video

Canonical Shows X Apps Running Under Mir and Unity 8 - Video

A new demo has been unveiled by Canonical

 
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