Kubuntu and Lubuntu get no Mir-displayserver in 13.10 release

The developers of the Ubuntu spin-offs Kubuntu and Lubuntu have indicated that their 13.10 editions will not include the Mir-displayserver. Canonical has already decided for its self-developed displayserver in Ubuntu 13.10.

Mir, according to Canonical is a modern successor of the decades-old X.org Server. The displayserver will be both in the mobile Ubuntu versions as in the desktopedities are going to be used. Canonical last week announced that Ubuntu 13.10, which is a planned release in October, will feature Mir and standaarddisplayserver will bet. Furthermore, it would not only Ubuntu’s Unity interface able to run in the new displayserver, but also other desktop environments.

The developers of Kubuntu and Lubuntu, respectively, KDE and LXDE as a desktop environment offer, however, nothing in Mir to see, and the displayserver provisionally left. The preference still goes out to the X.org Server. So let Jonathan Riddell of the Kubuntu Project to OmgUbuntu know that the Mir project of Canonical in his eyes, discord sows within the Linux community. Kubuntu will then also in the following releases for X.org choose.

From the Lubuntu camp sound similar sounds and both the 13.10 – if the 14.04 LTS-releases of Lubuntu will with X.org Server. This choice would be made because LXDE in combination with Mir’s performing more poorly than X.org Server. However, it must be in the long term may have a trial version of Mir will appear.