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Canonical: 2017 Will See a Mir 1.0 Release, Plans to Implement Vulkan Support

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Marius Nestor
Jan 17, 2017

As most of you are aware, Canonical develops its own display server for Ubuntu, called Mir, which, in some ways, is similar to the X.Org Server and Wayland technologies. While Ubuntu on the desktop still uses X.Org Server’s components, Mir is currently heavily tested for the Unity 8 user interface that Canonical plans on implementing by default for future releases of Ubuntu Linux, for desktops.
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