Wayland: A New X Server For Linux

news · November 4, 2008

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your

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Title: Wayland: A New X Server For Linux ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "It's no secret that much of the code-base that makes up the

modern-day X.Org Server is old and in some places bloated. The X.Org

Server continues to evolve and has received a number of major additions

in recent times, but wouldn't a clean and lighter server that is

designed around today's needs be ideal? Red Hat's Kristian Høgsberg has

started a new project, which is currently known as Wayland, and is just

that: a new lightweight X Server. Wayland isn't just a rewrite of the

current X Server, but instead it's a small server that is designed

around some of the latest graphics technologies such as kernel

mode-setting and the Graphics Execution Manager. Wayland also has its

own built-in compositing manager."

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