Ubuntu Devs Begin Testing Wayland on Computers with AMD, Nvidia and Intel GPUs | Linux Today

Ubuntu Devs Begin Testing Wayland on Computers with AMD, Nvidia and Intel GPUs

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Marius Nestor
Jun 12, 2017

In his report last week, Canonical’s Will Cooke revealed the fact that the Ubuntu Desktop team is working hard on implementing a testing infrastructure based on the company’s MAAS (Metal as a Service) and TestFlinger technologies to test various scenarios on a wide range of physical hardware. The new testing infrastructure appears to give the Ubuntu Desktop team access to computers using various AMD Radeon, Intel, and Nvidia graphics cards for test driving the next-generation Wayland display server for the Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system with the GNOME 3 desktop environment.

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Marius Nestor

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