<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">>I find that Oneiric is unique, as an Ubuntu distro. This is the first<br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">>release where instead of spending development effort packaging<br>>*released* software from upstream (e.g: GNOME 3), they chose to release<br>>their own software as part of the core UI infrastructure. <br><br><br>Actually, Canonical/Ubuntu has for years maintained their own kernel tree and have regularly experimented with kernel changes. Indeed, Wayland will pull X-Windows functionality into the kernel, yet another (the other being Unity) major change designed to make Ubuntu competitive in the commercial market. It appears they want gaming level display
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