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Mir is the display server developed by Canonical to compete with Wayland and ultimately succeed the X.Org Server. Mir is in production use on Ubuntu Touch while it's expected to be used by default in the Ubuntu 14.10 Linux release. The Mir Display Server was announced in 2013.

Additional Information: unity.ubuntu.com/mir

Mir Articles & Reviews

Redesigned Thelio Major Elevates System76's All-AMD, Open-Source Linux Workstation   Computers   2026-05-11
Ubuntu 26.04 Showing Nice Gains Over Ubuntu 25.10 On AMD Ryzen 9000 Series   Operating Systems   2026-03-30
Pop!_OS 24.04 vs. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 26.04 Development Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2026-03-24
System76 New Thelio Mira Linux Desktop Running Strong - Powered By AMD Ryzen 9000 Series   Computers   2026-03-17
Ubuntu 25.04 & Fedora 42 Hit A Long Sought Milestone With HDR Support Working Well On The Linux Desktop   Monitors   2025-04-29
Linux 5.5 Feature Overview - Raspberry Pi 4 To New Graphics Capabilities To KUnit   Software   2019-12-08
Mesa 17.3 With RADV Vulkan Running Great With Polaris, Starts To Outperform AMDGPU-PRO   Display Drivers   2017-10-24
Ubuntu 17.10 Ships Today - Arguably Its Most Interesting Release In Years   Operating Systems   2017-10-19
A Look Back At The Desktop & X.Org/Wayland/Mir Milestones Of Ubuntu   Operating Systems   2017-04-05
Trying Out Unity 8 + Mir On Ubuntu 17.04   Operating Systems   2017-03-23
Trying Out The Experimental Unity 8 Session On Ubuntu 16.10   Software   2016-10-05
Ubuntu 14.10 XMir System Compositor Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2014-10-23
Early Ubuntu 14.04 Intel XMir Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2014-01-02
XMir Performance Measured On Ubuntu 13.10   Software   2013-10-19
X.Org vs. XMir On KDE, Xfce, Unity Desktops   Software   2013-09-24
Mesa 9.2 X.Org/Mir Ubuntu 13.10 Performance Benchmarks   Display Drivers   2013-08-30
Composite Bypass Support Sharply Bumps XMir's Performance   Software   2013-08-29
Intel Haswell Laptop Impact When Running XMir   Display Drivers   2013-08-18
Unity On XMir Performance For Nouveau Gallium3D   Software   2013-06-30
2D Performance Also Impacted By Unity On XMir   Software   2013-06-29
The First Benchmarks Of Unity On XMir: There's A Performance Hit   Display Drivers   2013-06-28
The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland   Display Drivers   2013-06-07
Fedora 17 vs. Fedora 18 Benchmarks   Operating Systems   2013-01-24
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Battles Fedora 17 On Intel Ivy Bridge   Operating Systems   2012-06-26
Intel HD 4000 Ivy Bridge Graphics On Linux   Graphics Cards   2012-04-24
ECS A780GM-A v1.0   Motherboards   2008-04-14
Tagan BZ 900W   Power Supplies   2008-03-18
OCZ ReaperX HPC 4GB PC2-6400   Memory   2008-03-14
New Project Indiana Details Emerge   Operating Systems   2007-09-19
Ubuntu's displayconfig-gtk   Display Drivers   2007-08-24
Fedora 7 Test 3 Live   Operating Systems   2007-03-29
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Herd 5   Operating Systems   2007-03-05
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Herd 2   Operating Systems   2007-01-14
Fedora Core 6   Operating Systems   2006-10-19
Linspire v5.1.365 Beta Italiano   Operating Systems   2006-04-01
Customizing Fedora 4   Operating Systems   2005-12-17
MEPIS SimplyMEPIS v3.4-1 RC1   Operating Systems   2005-11-24
Ultra Products X-Finity 600W   Power Supplies   2005-03-26

Mir Linux & Open-Source News

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Beta Now Properly Handles Notches & Rounded Corners   Ubuntu   2026-06-15
NVIDIA's Nova Driver Continues Being Built Up In Linux 7.2 Along With Other DRM Rust Code   Linux Kernel   2026-06-05
COSMIC Now Implements Wayland Pointer Constraints For Better Gaming Experience   Desktop   2026-06-03
Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code   Wayland   2026-06-02
AI-Driven Security Disclosures, NVIDIA Vera & Linux 7.1 Features That Made An Exciting May   Free Software   2026-06-01
Linux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI   Linux Networking   2026-05-29
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 Improves Handling Of Desktop Apps, Other Fixes   Ubuntu   2026-05-09
GCC Git Lands Fix For Missing AVX-512 Optimizations On AMD Zen 6   AMD   2026-05-06
Fedora Yet To Decide On x86_64-v3 Packages For Fedora Linux 45   Fedora   2026-05-05
Fedora 44 Released For Living On The Leading-Edge Of Linux Innovations   Fedora   2026-04-28
System76 Thelio Major Workstation Updated For Better Thermals, More Performance   Hardware   2026-04-23
GCC Compiler Adds Arm AGI CPU Target   Arm   2026-04-17
Mir 2.26 Begins Working On Rust-Based Input Platform   Ubuntu   2026-04-16
Fedora 45 To Consider Building x86_64-v3 Packages   Fedora   2026-04-15
exFAT For Linux 7.1 Helps Reduce File Fragmentation, Fixes   Linux Storage   2026-04-15
Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1   Intel   2026-04-14
Mir-Based Miracle-WM 0.9 Introduces A WebAssembly Plugin System   Wayland   2026-04-09
Linux 7.0-rc6 Released With The Fixes Still Coming In Heavy   Linux Kernel   2026-03-29
DRBD Driver Working To Land ~15 Years Worth Of Changes Into The Linux Kernel   Linux Storage   2026-03-27
Mageia 10 Beta Now Available For Those Who Reminisce About Mandrake Linux   Operating Systems   2026-03-20
Canonical Collecting Wish List Ideas For Improving Mir   Ubuntu   2026-03-19
Blender 5.1 Released With Raycast Nodes, AMD GPU Ray-Tracing By Default   Free Software   2026-03-17
Trying Out Snapdragon X Elite With The Acer Swift 14 AI Laptop On Ubuntu 26.04   Ubuntu   2026-03-14
EndeavourOS Titan Released With Linux 6.19, Improved GPU Driver Integration   Arch Linux   2026-03-12
GNOME GitLab Redirecting Some Git Traffic To GitHub For Reducing Costs   GNOME   2026-02-27
AlmaLinux Showing Nice Growth With More Than 2M System Update Check-Ins Per Week   Operating Systems   2026-02-26
System76 Preparing To Introduce Redesigned Thelio Hardware   Hardware   2026-02-18
Dank Fedora MiracleWM & Other Fedora 44 Changes Approved   Fedora   2026-02-03
GNU C Library Moving From Sourceware To Linux Foundation Hosted CTI   GNU   2026-01-27
Gentoo Linux Made Progress On RISC-V, WSL & More In 2025 While Pulling In Just $12k USD   Operating Systems   2026-01-06
Radeon Linux Driver Enhancements, Linux 6.19 Activity & Other December Highlights   Phoronix   2026-01-02
Devuan 6.1 Released For Latest Debian 13 "Init Freedom" Without systemd   Debian   2026-01-01
KDE Plasma's Wayland Transition "Nears Completion" In Ending Out 2025   KDE   2025-12-28
WMI Marshalling Support For Linux Aims To Match Windows' ACPI/WMI Handling   Hardware   2025-12-21
TrixiePup64 11.2 Released For Debian-Based Puppy Linux With Wayland & X11 Options   Operating Systems   2025-12-13
LoongArch32 Support Begins Taking Shape In Linux 6.19, GCC 16   Linux Kernel   2025-12-13
KDE Plasma 6.6 Will Finally Support Proper Screen Mirroring On Wayland   KDE   2025-12-12
Valve-Backed Color Pipeline API For Linux Is Finally Ready For Upstream   Hardware   2025-11-27
Blender 5.0 Released With Better Vulkan Support, HDR On Wayland   Free Software   2025-11-18
Miracle-WM 0.8 Adds More Features For This Mir-Powered Wayland Compositor   Desktop   2025-11-13
Linux 6.18-rc4 Released: "None Of It Looks Particularly Scary"   Linux Kernel   2025-11-02
Qualcomm Plumbing "SSR" Support To Deal With Crashes On AI Accelerators   AI   2025-10-23
Mir 2.23 Released With New Documentation For Building A Desktop Environment   Ubuntu   2025-10-13
Ubuntu's Launchpad Deprecating Code Imports From CVS & Subversion   Ubuntu   2025-09-09
Miracle-WM 0.7 Brings Mouse/Keyboard Configuration, Enhances Sway IPC Compatibility   Wayland   2025-09-04
Mir 2.22 Released With Tackling NVIDIA Support, Initial Rust Scaffolding   Ubuntu   2025-08-26
Patches Posted For Raspberry Pi 5 Ethernet With The Upstream Linux Kernel   Raspberry Pi   2025-08-15
Miracle-WM 0.6 Brings Many Improvements For This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor   Ubuntu   2025-07-09
Lenovo WMI Gaming Series Drivers Expected To Debut In Linux 6.17   Linux Gaming   2025-07-07
Debian 13 Installer RC2 Fixes An Annoying Issue, Improves Btrfs Rescue Handling   Debian   2025-07-02
Mir 2.21 Released With Cursor Scaling & Mouse Keys Support   Ubuntu   2025-06-26
Intel TDX Host Support Merged For KVM With Linux 6.16   Intel   2025-06-02
Firefox 139.0 Now Available With Faster HTTP/3 Upload Performance   Mozilla   2025-05-26
AMD Preparing For Some Nice GPU Reset Improvements Under Linux   Radeon   2025-05-22
ByoWave Proteus Controller Support Coming To Linux   Hardware   2025-05-18
OSU Open Source Lab At Risk Of Closure This Year Due To Lack Of Funding   Free Software   2025-05-01
KDE Preps More Wayland Improvements, Addresses Another Possible KWin Crash   KDE   2025-04-19
Fedora 42 Released As A Fantastic Update To This Leading-Edge Linux Distribution   Fedora   2025-04-15
Intel TDX Support For KVM Finally Expected To Debut In Mainline Linux 6.16   Virtualization   2025-04-13
Ubuntu 25.04 Now Ships With JPEG-XL Support Enabled By Default   Ubuntu   2025-04-09
Linux Patches Revised For The Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers   Linux Gaming   2025-04-08
Arch Linux Powered Endeavour OS "Mercury Neo" Released   Arch Linux   2025-03-23
Miracle-WM 0.5 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Tiling Window Manager   Wayland   2025-03-20
Blender 4.4 Released With Vulkan Improvements & AMD HIP RT No Longer Experimental   Free Software   2025-03-18
Mir 2.20 Brings Focus Stealing Prevention, Workaround/Quirk Fixes   Ubuntu   2025-03-10
There Will Not Be Official ROCm Support For The Radeon RX 9070 Series On Launch Day   Radeon   2025-02-28
GNU Gold Linker Is Deprecated & Will Be Gone For Good Without New Developers   GNU   2025-02-06
Linux's KUnit Will Now Default To Using Hardware Acceleration For Faster Testing   Linux Kernel   2025-01-22
Triple Buffering Support Updated Against Latest GNOME 48 Code   GNOME   2025-01-15
Fedora's Captivating 2024 With Many New Features & Leading Innovations   Fedora   2024-12-28
OneXPlayer Linux Driver Being Brought To Parity With Windows Driver For These Handhelds   Hardware   2024-12-27
GNOME Added Many New Features This Year Amid Foundation Woes   GNOME   2024-12-27
Pre-Content fanotify / fanotify Hierarchical Storage Management Expected For Linux 6.14   Linux Storage   2024-12-26
Btrfs Working On RAID1 Round-Robin Read Balancing   Linux Storage   2024-12-15
Miracle-WM 0.4 Released With i3 IPC Support   Wayland   2024-12-11
Mir 2.19 Released With Atomic KMS Platform Support, New Wayland Protocols   Ubuntu   2024-12-02
Genode-Based Sculpt OS 24.10 Introduces Multi-Monitor Support   Operating Systems   2024-11-02
Ubuntu Hoping To Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS   Ubuntu   2024-11-01
Miriway 24.10 Compositor Adds systemd Integration, DE-Specific Configurations   Wayland   2024-11-01
Linux Use On Microsoft Azure Crosses 60%, AlmaLinux Now An Endorsed Distro   Microsoft   2024-10-29
Fedora 41 Releases Today With Many Shiny New Features   Fedora   2024-10-29
Fedora 41 Beta Released With Many Leading-Edge Linux Enhancements   Fedora   2024-09-17
Mir 2.18 Released With Wayland Server-Side Decorations   Wayland   2024-09-17
Mir-based Miracle-WM Adds Optional Systemd Integration   Wayland   2024-09-09
Wayland's Weston 14.0 Compositor Released   Wayland   2024-09-04
Wireshark 4.4 Released For This Leading Network Protocol Analyzer   Programming   2024-08-28
Mir-Powered Miracle-WM Continues Tacking On New Features Ahead Of Fedora Miracle   Fedora   2024-08-27
Archinstall 2.8.2 To Speed Up Arch Linux Installations, Other Fixes   Arch Linux   2024-08-17
Weston 14.0 Alpha Brings New Wayland Compositor Features   Wayland   2024-08-14
Mir-Based Miracle-WM Updated Ahead Of Fedora Miracle Spin   Wayland   2024-08-13
COSMIC Desktop Very Close To Alpha Release, Adds Compositor Multi-Threading   Desktop   2024-07-12
LXD 6.1 Released With Automatic Core Pinning Load Balancing, Fixes Hosts With 64+ CPU Cores   Virtualization   2024-07-08
Fedora 41 Looks To Finally Say Goodbye To Python 2.7   Fedora   2024-07-02
Miracle-WM v0.3 Released - Working Out To Daily-Drive This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2024-07-02
Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights   Phoronix   2024-06-30
The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews & Featured Articles Over 20 Years   Phoronix   2024-06-07
The Most Popular Linux News Over The Past 20 Years   Free Software   2024-06-06
NVIDIA Open Kernel Driver News, AMD EPYC 4004 & Linux 6.10 Made For A Fun May   Phoronix   2024-06-01
Microsoft Rolling Out New Windows Subsystem For Linux "WSL" Features For 2024   Microsoft   2024-05-30
Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors   Fedora   2024-05-29
Steam Deck Platform Driver In No Apparent Rush For Upstreaming Into The Linux Kernel   Valve   2024-05-22
Fedora Miracle Spin Approved To Ship As Part Of Fedora Linux 41   Fedora   2024-05-20
Mir 2.17 Better Supports Hybrid Graphics & Other Wayland Enhancements   Ubuntu   2024-05-15
Intel Arc Graphics Demonstrated Running On ARM With Ampere Altra   Intel   2024-05-12
Pop!_OS' COSMIC Desktop Finishing Up Work On App Store   Desktop   2024-05-09
Canonical Releases Landscape 24.04 LTS With New Snap Management, New Web Portal   Ubuntu   2024-05-01
Fedora Miracle Spin Proposed For Fedora 41   Fedora   2024-04-25
Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade   Fedora   2024-04-23
Miracle-WM 0.2 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2024-04-19
openSUSE Leap Micro 6 Reaches Alpha   SUSE   2024-04-15
Firefox 125 Adds AV1 Support In Encrypted Media Extensions, Other New Features   Mozilla   2024-04-15
Archinstall 2.8 Further Refines The Easy Arch Linux Installation Experience   Arch Linux   2024-04-15
Fedora 41 Looks To "-O3" Optimizations For Its Python Build   Fedora   2024-04-13
Canonical Announces Ubuntu Pro For Devices   Ubuntu   2024-04-09
UWSM Aims To Be A Universal Wayland Session Manager   Wayland   2024-03-06
Miracle-WM Announced As A Wayland Compositor Built On Mir   Wayland   2024-02-19
GNOME Network Displays Adds Support For Chromecast & Miracast MICE Protocols   GNOME   2024-01-25
Valve Releases Proton 8.0-5 With Many Fixes, More Windows Games Now Playable   Valve   2024-01-22
A 2024 Discussion Whether To Convert The Linux Kernel From C To Modern C++   Linux Kernel   2024-01-10
AMD Announces Automotive-Grade Ryzen Embedded V2000A Series   AMD   2024-01-04
Ubuntu Looking At Discontinuing Its Source ISOs   Ubuntu   2024-01-04
Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023   Wayland   2024-01-01
Intel Meteor Lake, Emerald Rapids & Other Popular Topics For December   Phoronix   2024-01-01
Fedora 40 Looks To Provide Optimized x86_64 Binaries For Different HWCAPs   Fedora   2023-12-30
Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 Focal Brings PinePhone Images, Initial Snap Support   Ubuntu   2023-12-29
Firefox 121 Now Available With Wayland Enabled By Default   Mozilla   2023-12-18
Debian 12.3 Delayed Due To An EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Being Addressed   Debian   2023-12-10
Using Miriway For Empowering Xfce / MATE / LXQt & Other Desktops With Wayland   Wayland   2023-12-01
Coreboot 4.22 Released: Initial AMD OpenSIL Code Added, 17 New Motherboards   Coreboot   2023-11-28
Mir 2.16 Released With Seamless Boot Integration, Improved X11 Client Support   Ubuntu   2023-11-28
Microsoft Gets OpenGL 4.4 Running Atop Direct3D 12 Using Mesa, OpenGL 4.5 Inbound   Microsoft   2023-11-14
Blender 4.0 Released For This Incredible Open-Source 3D Modeling Software   Free Software   2023-11-14
Ubuntu's Miriway Maturing As A Mir-Based Wayland Compositor For Other Desktops   Ubuntu   2023-11-07
Bcachefs Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.7   Linux Storage   2023-10-30
Intel's Mesa Drivers Enable "TBMIR" Tile-Based Rendering   Intel   2023-10-28
Ubuntu's Mir Working On Hybrid Graphics / Multi-GPU Support   Ubuntu   2023-10-23
KDE Plasma 6 Has New Role For "F10", Kate/KWrite Text-To-Speech & Smooth Scrolling   KDE   2023-10-14
CentOS Starts An Integration SIG To Help Products/Services Built On RHEL / CentOS Stream   Red Hat   2023-09-21
Ubuntu 23.04 & 22.04.3 Installs Haven't Been Following Their Own Security Best Practices   Ubuntu   2023-09-15
Mir 2.15 Released With Cleaning Up Some APIs, Improved Alt+Tab   Ubuntu   2023-08-23
LoongArch "Loong64" Added To Debian Ports   Debian   2023-08-16
Intel Meteor Lake Graphics Still Experimental "Force Probe" With Linux 6.6   Intel   2023-08-11
Mageia 9-rc1 Now Available For This Long-Delayed Release   Operating Systems   2023-07-21
Ubuntu's Mir 2.14 Released With Wayland Drag & Drop, Screen Locker Support   Ubuntu   2023-07-18
Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 2.6 Preparing New Features   Arch Linux   2023-07-17
Ubuntu Revisiting Its Initramfs Compression Approach   Ubuntu   2023-07-10
Intel Continues Working On IAA Crypto Compression Driver For Linux   Intel   2023-06-21
Arch Linux Completes Its Git Migration   Arch Linux   2023-05-21
Arch Linux Prepares For Repository Changes, Discontinuing SVN Access   Arch Linux   2023-05-16
Ubuntu 23.10 Looks To dhcpcd5 For Replacing ISC DHCP Client   Ubuntu   2023-05-11