Wayland/Weston Gets Forked As Northfield/Norwood 252
An anonymous reader writes "Weeks after Canonical announced Mir, Wayland's display server protocol and Weston compositor have been forked. A contributor to Wayland found differing views with the project over desktop eye candy and other technical decisions to the X11 successor, which resulted in forming the Northfield and Norwood projects. The developer, Scott Moreau, has been outted from the project but has provided a lengthy explanation why the fork was needed to advance the Linux desktop."
Just what we need... (Score:2, Funny)
Standards (Score:5, Funny)
Re:When are they going to use motion sensing and 3 (Score:5, Funny)
It's about time the entire desktop go 3d. It's 2013 and video cards can do it easily. Instead of windows why not just use rotating cubes?
You can easily do that without some fancy display driver or even 3d glasses. Just strap together 6 monitors into a cube shape and fashion a suitable base that will let it rotate in 3 axes (probably best to put the CPU inside the cube so you only need to provide power to the cube). Then to change desktops just flip the cube in the appropriate direction.
Explanation (Score:5, Funny)
Once Wayland components developers started trying to implement something practical, they discover, one by one, that they need those "unnecessary" X features after all, however there is no way to explain it to the rest of developers, who still believe that removing everything they don't immediately use in their narrow area is a great design practice.
Next Woburn/Billerica (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Next Woburn/Billerica (Score:4, Funny)
I'm waiting for the Wayland/Yutani fork myself.
Re:More information (Score:4, Funny)
nothing he said in there was anything worse than what linus posts, or many open source projects. you could have said "scott - i choose not to make the changes that you'd like. you're free to fork things". instead, you're talking out of both sides of your mouth - claiming that you were being accommodating and then stonewalling him, kicking him when he called you on it, and pretending that he's a bad egg for forking things
if you're going to bad-mouth someone for forking, then you're just playing politics
Re:Just what we need... (Score:5, Funny)
I'd rather take one solid piece of software than 10 which are broken in different ways.
I believe this distribution [microsoft.com] is what you're looking for.
Re:Just what we need... (Score:5, Funny)
I'd rather take one solid piece of software than 10 which are broken in different ways.
I believe this distribution [microsoft.com] is what you're looking for.
he said solid not unstable or unusable
Northfield + Weston (Score:4, Funny)
Shouldn't someone create a couple more forks with names like Eastcoast and Southwood so we can have all the cardinal directions covered? Then we can have programmer gang wars.
Re:Just what we need... (Score:5, Funny)
In fact, find a dr. Sues book
What is that, a book on the benefits of malpractice insurance?