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Xorg-free Wayland Live CD that starts directly to Wayland

92 points| rohshall | 13 years ago |lists.freedesktop.org | reply

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[+] AlexanderDhoore|13 years ago|reply
I like how the free software community is very loose. Lots of jokes in the documentation. Python and Norwegian Blue parrots, for example. But naming your distro Rebecca Black Linux, might undermine credibility just a tiny bit. (But obviously you aren't hurting anyone, so: nice job on the wayland live cd!)
[+] claudius|13 years ago|reply
Let’s just hope it is not a multi-seat OS.
[+] moreentropy|13 years ago|reply
For a technology preview project the name is fine, albeit not googleable. I don't think that a project like this has to choose a name people can sell to the management.

From my own experience, really chose something that is googleable. It's frustrating when you never have a change to be found when people type your project's name into google because it's an artist's name or a common word. And yes, i think finding a good name for a project is hard.

[+] anonymous|13 years ago|reply
Isn't her name also copyrighted? I mean, isn't it illegal to call your distro "Rebecca Black"?
[+] trust-me|13 years ago|reply
After reading your comment I assumed Rebecca Black is a porn star :D
[+] lvillani|13 years ago|reply
It's interesting to see how Canonical's announcement of Mir seemed to spur new interest around Wayland and an acceleration of its development, generating a new wave of announcements (i.e.: Gnome deciding to go "all wayland" by 3.12, etc).
[+] Zigurd|13 years ago|reply
That sure seems to have been a kick in the pants. More specifically, it spurred interest in using the Android HAL in the underpinnings of a Weston compositor.

Having gotten that kick in the pants, I hope they can all just get along and resolve resource and schedule issues between two projects that look functionally identical now.

[+] rplacd|13 years ago|reply
> I wrote a new login manager with Bash and Zenity and Expect (and Script) that fully runs on a Wayland server (weston).

(!)

[+] yeasayer|13 years ago|reply
Downloading 1.7GB from sourceforge is hard. Any chance of torrent?
[+] PommeDeTerre|13 years ago|reply
I'm curious why it's 1.7 GB in the first place.

It initially sounded like a convenient way to quickly try out Wayland, but there must be a lot of unnecessary software included with it, thus making it quite inconvenient to try out.

[+] kristofferR|13 years ago|reply
Download with DownThemAll, it's a great Firefox download manager extension. It supports multiple pieces, multiple mirrors and resuming, taking all the trouble out of downloading big files over http.
[+] pepijndevos|13 years ago|reply
I doubt anyone would mind if you seeded it.
[+] tmzt|13 years ago|reply
ISO filesystems can also be used on DVD so the size shouldn't matter much. I believe the upper limit is 4GB and then you would use UDF.
[+] Someone|13 years ago|reply
Also, in my memory, a CD is both a physical device and a unit of storage size equal to around 600 MB. Did that definition change?
[+] keithpeter|13 years ago|reply
Has anyone had a look at what is in the iso? Just curious. It would be three hour download from local mirror here at present.
[+] kierank|13 years ago|reply
Why, sourceforge has excellent global mirrors.
[+] phoboslab|13 years ago|reply
So, what exactly is Wayland?
[+] asperous|13 years ago|reply
Wayland is intended as a simpler replacement for X, easier to develop and maintain. - http://wayland.freedesktop.org/

Currently it's

Display <- Compositor <- X11 Client <- X11 Server <- App

Wayland:

Display <- Compositor (Wayland) <- App

[+] mahrain|13 years ago|reply
Works pretty well in VMware Fusion, Kudos!