A simpler description of wayland

[Darxus at chaosreigns.com]

On 12/22, Josh Leverette wrote:
> No? wayland is a very separate project. It is not backwards compatible
> with X. It will run X programs in a copy of X. Nobody is panicking
> anyways.

Yes, Wayland is a distinct project from X.org, but it, and all the work to
make it possible, has been done by X developers.

It is backwards compatible with X, as you say - through a copy of X.  Which
is not incompatible with what I said.

I've seen a bunch of people panicking.  Perhaps you have not read the
comments to Mark Shuttleworth's announcement?

"Panicking" may be too strong a word, but plenty of threats to stop using
Ubuntu by people who don't understand Wayland isn't actually going to
negatively impact them.

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