They're going to bring Mir/XMir in for an LTS? That seems to be risky to me. These large Canonical-backed projects seem to have a whole lot of rough spots on launch day. upstart and Unity both were very buggy initially.
Or is this going to be one of those cases where they come out aiming for LTS, but end up pushing it back to the next release?
Rick Spencer said last night at a release party that he expected that 14.10 would have Mir, since otherwise his team would have to support early-2014 Mir for years, which he didn't want to do because it's still improving so quickly.
If I understand correctly, Mir is currently used only on the phone edition.
I mean that Mir will not replace X until 14.10, so the 14.04 LTS release will still use X by default. A lot of people have been worried about Mir being launched as the default desktop display server in an LTS, and when I spoke about it with Rick, he said that he wasn't planning for Mir to be the default in 14.04, and the reason why was that it was changing rapidly still, and the Mir they could put in 14.04 would likely not have stopped changing rapidly yet, but would have to be supported in a bugfix-only fashion for years after 2014.
"At least we know now who belongs to the Open Source Tea Party"
Ouch! Shuttleworth doesn't shy away from controversy. It's not a bad thing to be polarizing in a quickly-moving industry, but that comment seemed pretty harsh.
I don't see why he's helping incite the bizarre religious wars that have started up lately about Mir vs Wayland, Systemd vs Everyone, Unity vs Everyone.
The great thing about a Linux system is we can choose the components we want. If he wants Mir and Unity and Upstart in his distro then great.If I want Wayland and Systemd and Gnome 3 then I can go with that.
The arguments eventually come down to technical merit. Whichever one is best will eventually be used. If not, the competition leads us to an arms race of features. Everyone wins.
Nobody does well by there being no competition though, down that road lies IE6.
Agreed, although for those who already see one as having 'won' on technical merit, it might make sense for them to try and shift development to the future of that project, rather than continue down a route that they believe will always be inferior.
I hope W is Wombat related, and they do something for the Northern Hairy Nose Wombat. They lost 10% of their entire worldwide population to dingoes (maybe a single dingo) in the year 2000 / 2001. It's one of the rarest animals on Earth.
Although LTS releases are more reliable and better supported, I find the other releases to be more exciting. Hence I will probably wait for 'Ubuntu 14.10 Unitarian Unicorn' or whatever it is called.
...or you could call it 14.04 (and Android 2.3, 4.1 etc etc) if you don't like easy to remember words. Let's face it 'Mavericks' and 'Blue' aren't much better.
