In what appears to be a growing penchant among open source developers for naming things after Soviet spacecraft, Canonical recently announced a new project called Mir. And while it doesn’t actually have much (or anything) to do with outer space, it could have major implications for open source user interfaces throughout the channel???not to mention for Canonical itself as it strives to ???converge??? its Ubuntu offerings across a range of hardware devices.
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