Ever heard of Wayland? Now THAT was the one that should replace X11 on all dists in the future. Yes I have heard of Wayland and know what it is. My main point was that they would only decide to use Mir instead of Wayland if there was some sort of advantage to doing it. One doesn't create their own display server unless there is an advantage to it. But instead Canonical decided go they'r own route What they has done with MiR is to fragment the Linux community and NO ONE wins on it except Canonical :/ Well if other distros adopt Mir then there is no fragmentation. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTM5MjI Because of this commercial apps will probadly only work on ubuntu distribution which already is a problem but will be worser in future because it will not even work with Wayland. If other distros adopt Mir then software would be available outside of Ubuntu. Never mind the fact that Ubuntu is not the only distro out there and limiting yourself to one distro limits how much money can be made. Its second generation of Google Android No it isn't. Ubuntu is nothing like Android beyond the usage of the Linux kernel and some shared components. I guess they are similar in that they are both developed by corporations but so what it simply means that linux is moving beyond hobby software status which is a good thing. And all this talk about fully opensource is plain stupid garbage! There is no chance that everything will be opensource!