The developers of Wayland are planning to continue this year, the first stable version. A new developerversie follows soon. A number of Linux distributions wants the displayserversoftware later use.
The lead developer of Wayland made at the open source conference Fosdem in Brussels announced that the first stable release probably this year it takes place, though it is still at the beginning of 2013. That reports H-Online. In version 1.0, the key components and the developer api’s stable enough. Version 0.85, a new developer snapshot, to follow soon.
Before distributions switching to Wayland, there should be still what has to happen. So is the support of Wayland in Qt and GTK+ is still not perfect and there is still no support from KDE, the developers of the window manager, however, already indicated that they will eventually Wayland to support.
It is, however, still driver support; manufacturers of, for example, video cards have the displayserver support to users the functionality of the card to use. The open-source drivers tend to provide lesser performance. Nvidia gave at the end of 2010, however, have no plans to have Wayland support.
In the on opengl-based Wayland applications in a private buffer being rendered, in X.org by the central displayserver happened. Thus, fewer steps are required, for example, input from a user to convert to text on the screen. The Wayland-compositor, called Weston, is also free to use and is suitable for mobile devices. X.org is too heavy; therefore, it uses Android for example, its own compositor.
Wayland is not a fork of X.org but a completely new project, that in 2008 has begun. Therefore, the software contains a lot less old code that barely is used. X.org still contains support for old types of fonts and primitive graphics. Incidentally, the developers of X.org admittedly, X11, the current version of the software is outdated.
The Wayland-displaysoftware can be completely independent of X.org run, but can also be used for various X. org servers content to a single Wayland-session to send. Therefore, don’t need more between virtual consoles to be switched to X. org-server switch, which, for example, the use of a separate X. org-server, for the display of the screensaver more attractive. Also can X.org as a client under Wayland run, so applications that are not suitable for Wayland, however, can be used.
In contrast to X.org has Wayland support for remote rendering, where applications over the network through an X. org-server can be rendered. It may be possible that support eventually, but Wayland is designed mainly for stand-alone pcs, that no applications remotely need to turn. X.org is designed according to a server-client model, Wayland is not.