Ubuntu's Mir 0.17 Display Server Has Better Support for Third-Party Renderers | Linux Today

Ubuntu’s Mir 0.17 Display Server Has Better Support for Third-Party Renderers

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Marius Nestor
Oct 16, 2015

Mir 0.17 introduces a new library called libmircookie, which aims to provide a simple mechanism that can be used by a group of processes that cooperate with each other to verify timestamps that are difficult to forge to untrusted third-party parties. Moreover, there’s now better support for third-party renderers.

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Marius Nestor

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