Wayland, that graphic server that will offer us an alternative to Xorg (some might say you could even move it) it will be on version 1.0 soon.
The first stable version of Wayland will be available by the end of the year, details were submitted by the creator of the project (Kristian Hogsberg) On FOSDEM.
Version 0.85 has been marked for release in the git repository of the project, it will be followed throughout the year until reaching the RC (candidate to be released), and by the end of the year version 1.0 (stable now) will be released.
hogsberg (author of Wayland) started the project in 2008 when he was still an employee of Red Hat, now works for Intel. This project aims to offer better performance and compatibility with current hardware. If so, I personally hope that they also support old / antique hardware, as this has always been a point in favor of GNU / Linux as such, which allows us to give a useful life to hardware that has been discontinued.
A while ago we could read that Ubuntu could include Wayland by default (replacing Xorg), honestly after seeing that the development of Wayland still has a long (but a long) way to go, I don't think it's the right decision 0_oU ...
Anyway, by the end of the year surely some distro will allow us to try this other graphic server 😀
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What good news!
If Wayland can be made to run stable, this will be one of the most significant revolutions in graphics.
I would like to test that stable version, even if it was only hours until the end of the world. 😉
This project, in the long term, will benefit us.
I think it is not necessary for Wayland to be compatible with old hardware, because for that you can always use Xorg as a graphical server, it seems to me that that would be unnecessarily bloating the Wayland code, and then, what would differentiate it from Xorg ?
Wayland is not a graphical server it is a protocol between the composer and your customers. On the Wayland site they explain that one way to maintain compatibility with X clients is by modifying XOrg to accept Wayland as input, instead of KMS.
If it is a protocol, but it is also (or can be) a graphical server, what happens is that unlike Xorg, which is based on more components, Wayland delegates them directly to the Kernel, or it also communicates with those elements, do not put them all in the same program, but they are independent and Wayland communicates with them, such as DRM, GEM, KMS, etc.
Someone already created a LiveCD for them to test Wayland:
http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/02/live-os-running-wayland-display-server.html
Fedora is also signed up to use it by default.
I have heard that Wayland mentioned a long time ago but even when Ubuntu mentioned that it was possible to include it as a graphic server by default, I did not find anyone who would explain to me if with that server we were going to have something similar to the damn Windows Directx (excuse me if I ask a lot but what I can say: vice still runs through my veins hahaha)