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# Blog posts tagged "sc:snap:egmde"

#### [Creating Graphical Shells – Try Mir in a Virtual Machine](https://canonical.com/blog/creating-graphical-shells-try-mir-in-a-virtual-machine)

What is Mir? Mir is a set of libraries for creating graphical shells for Linux on a range of hardware. This means that there are a number of shells based on Mir and they work on some very different form factors. Mir is what glues together the “shell” experience, the applications and the hardware: Mir

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Internet of Things

#### [egmde: a project that uses Mir](https://canonical.com/blog/egmde-uses-mir)

Display servers solve a large and complex problem. Mir provides a broad and powerful library to solve those problems, but there is a learning curve to use Mir effectively. It is really helpful to have a step-by-step example that covers enough of the issues to get a decent start. To address this need there’s a

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Desktop