While Canonical isn’t known for making many low-level upstream Linux contributions, new patches authored by one of Canonical’s Ubuntu developers has been posted for mainline Wayland.
Back in May the Ubuntu developers came up with very ambitious Wayland integration plans to use this next-generation display server as a system compositor for Ubuntu 12.10. The plans were very ambitious and it’s still not clear if they will succeed for the Ubuntu 12.10 roll-out in October.
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