It's no secret that much of the code-base that makes up the
modern-day X.Org Server is old and in some places bloated. The X.Org
Server continues to evolve and has received a number of major additions
in recent times, but wouldn't a clean and lighter server that is
designed around today's needs be ideal? Red Hat's Kristian Høgsberg has
started a new project, which is currently known as Wayland, and is just
that: a new lightweight X Server. Wayland isn't just a rewrite of the
current X Server, but instead it's a small server that is designed
around some of the latest graphics technologies such as kernel
mode-setting and the Graphics Execution Manager. Wayland also has its
own built-in compositing manager.
Check it out at Phoronix.
Wayland: A New X Server For Linux
Posted on Thursday, November 06 2008 @ 7:30 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck