Main Track (K-building)
Wayland compositors for fun and profit
<p>Linux desktop is moving to a new era, ditching complex software spaghetti with years of tech debt with… a protocol? That's it? And you expect some compositor projects replace the almighty X server? Replace just the X server? When the protocol's the limit, we can do far more and far more fun stuff!</p>
<p>We'll explore some more-or-less obscure uses for Wayland compositors and an embedded case study how simple task of porting DOOM to a router ended up with making it run basically all modern Linux desktop apps with it for free, with Rust.</p>
Additional information
| Live Stream | https://live.fosdem.org/watch/k1105 |
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| Type | maintrack |
| Language | English |
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