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Official: Lomiri desktop now runs on Debian

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 27, 2023

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Some significant news about what was Canonical's next-gen desktop: it now works well enough on Debian to be its developer's "daily driver."

The news was quietly announced on Twitter by UBPorts "creator and main developer" Marius Gripsgård. This is quite momentous in its way for several reasons. Firstly, that it's running on a desktop OS on a laptop, not on some kind of phone OS, which is the context in which we normally talk about Lomiri. Second, as we also mentioned in that story, it's running on the Mir 2 display server… which is significant, because the stack is not running on Ubuntu.

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