Longtime Ubuntu Linux fans may remember Canonical’s announcement back in 2010 that it was planning to adopt the OpenGL-based Wayland display management system instead of the venerable X Window system for Ubuntu Linux.

That intent was reiterated last May by Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth in Ubuntu Open Week, but now it looks like plans have changed.

Specifically, just ahead of this week’s Ubuntu Developer Summit, product strategy engineering manager Oliver Ries announced that the company’s new platform-agnostic focus has caused it to drop Wayland and instead create a display manager of its own.

‘Some changes are necessary’

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