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Bad NIH, good NIH

Bad NIH, good NIH

Posted Mar 9, 2013 20:01 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Bad NIH, good NIH by Serge
Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)

> but you can't make it work at all under Wayland, since you can't start Wayland compositor there.
Wayland works just fine with purely software rendering ( http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OD... ). I'm not sure this support hasn't bitrotted since then, but there are certainly no fundamental reasons why Wayland should require graphics hardware at all.


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