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Are AMD Athlon/Sempron APUs Fast Enough For Steam On Linux?   Linux Gaming   2014-04-15

XCB Linux & Open-Source News

Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11   Mesa   2024-04-16
Mesa 23.3 Lands Optional Support For Allowing Game Tearing On Wayland   Mesa   2023-09-11
Canonical's Mir 2.4 Brings Numerous X11 + Wayland Enhancements   Ubuntu   2021-06-08
Mesa 21.0 Adds EGL_EXT_platform_xcb Support   Mesa   2020-11-14
NVIDIA 440.82 Linux Driver Brings DOOM Eternal Performance Fix, Linux 5.6 Compatibility   NVIDIA   2020-04-07
Many Vintage X.Org Modules Could Use Some Help If Wanting New Releases   X.Org   2019-07-17
KDE Plasma Now Uses Slight RGB Hinting By Default For Better Fonts   KDE   2019-06-02
Chamferwm: A Vulkan-Powered X11 Window Manager   Vulkan   2019-02-18
Keith Packard Takes On X.Org Window Scaling With Input Handling   X.Org   2018-08-27
XCB & Other X.Org Package Updates Ahead Of X Server 1.20   X.Org   2018-03-05
Keith Packard's Work On Better Supporting VR HMDs Under Linux With X.Org/DRM   Valve   2017-09-23
Keith Packard Continues Working On DRM Leases For Vulkan / Linux VR   Vulkan   2017-07-01
The State Of Vulkan For Qt 5.10   Vulkan   2017-06-06
AMD Open-Sources Vulkan "Anvil"   Vulkan   2017-03-23
Steam's Recent Linux Changes Have Been Promoted To Stable   Valve   2017-01-19
Here's How To Setup Clear Linux For Intel Steam Linux Gaming   Clear Linux   2017-01-17
Steam Linux Client Beta Adds Idle Detection, Updated Vulkan Loader & More   Valve   2017-01-05
The Favorite Open-Source Vulkan Projects Of Phoronix Readers   Vulkan   2016-12-05
The Widely-Used Cairo Library Has Problems Passing Its Own Tests   Free Software   2016-07-03
Wine-Staging 1.9.6 Adds Initial Support For Vulkan Windows Programs On Linux   WINE   2016-03-21
KDE Screen Querying Is Much Faster On Wayland   KDE   2015-11-12
Libav Lands Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 Encoder   Multimedia   2015-10-23
Qt QPA Plug-In For KDE's KWin   KDE   2015-08-19
KDE Is Getting A New Screenshot Utility, But No Wayland Support Yet   KDE   2015-08-11
Mesa Is Working Towards Headless Compute/OpenCL Support   Mesa   2015-07-07
PC-BSD Works Out Big Improvements For Its Lumina Desktop   BSD   2015-05-01
X.Org Plans To Finally Start Their Elections Next Week   X.Org   2015-03-19
Power Management Being Further Improved In KDE Plasma 5.3   KDE   2015-02-03
Server-Side XCB Is Being Discussed For The X.Org Server   X.Org   2014-12-21
X.Org Foundation Decides On Its Women Outreach Project   X.Org   2014-10-31
X.Org Women Outreach Program Only Turns Up Two Applicants So Far   X.Org   2014-09-18
KDE KInfoCenter Improvements For Wayland   KDE   2014-03-04
Exciting Features Coming For Qt 5.3   Qt   2014-02-27
X Server Security Disaster: "It's Worse Than It Looks"   Linux Security   2013-12-31
X.Org DRI3 Improvements Are Nearly Done   X.Org   2013-09-26
KDE 4.11 Released With Its Early KWin Wayland Code   KDE   2013-08-14
SDL2 Plans With Wayland, SDL3 Already On The Mind   Linux Gaming   2013-08-14
KWin Getting Closer To KDE Frameworks 5 Support   KDE   2013-07-25
DRI3 Async Display Flipping For Linux, VBlank Syncing   X.Org   2013-07-24
X.Org DRI3 Present Extension Starts Taking Shape   X.Org   2013-07-12
KDE's KWin Made Lots Of Progress In 4.11   KDE   2013-06-18
New X DRI3 Extension Starts Working On GNOME, KDE   X.Org   2013-06-05
X.Org Libraries Hit By Round Of Security Issues   X.Org   2013-05-23
Features Being Developed For KDE 4.11 Desktop   KDE   2013-05-15
DRI3000 Still Being Developed For New X.Org DRI   X.Org   2013-04-13
SDDM Display Manager Sees Its First Release   Free Software   2013-03-20
KDE KWin Progresses With Qt 5, KDE Frameworks 5   Qt   2013-03-15
X.Org: "2013 Will Be The Year Of Mobile Wayland"   X.Org   2013-02-22
The Linux Kernel Console Is Being Killed Off   Linux Kernel   2013-02-08
KWin In KDE 4.11 Moves Along With Using XCB   KDE   2013-01-07
KWin Moving Towards XCB, Better Performance   KDE   2012-11-11
September Brought Good Valve, ARM, Linux News   Valve   2012-10-02
The X Composite Window Manager With XtoQ   X.Org   2012-09-21
Qt5's Linux Requirements Cause Problems   Qt   2012-09-15
An Overview Of Qt 5.0 Features   Free Software   2012-06-25
X.Org 7.7 Katamari Finally Surfaces   X.Org   2012-06-06
Cairo 1.12 Released With Major New Features   Free Software   2012-03-26
MeeGo Tablet UX Can Already Run On Wayland?   Intel   2011-05-22
Mesa, Wayland, X Will Get Some Summer Love   Google   2011-04-25
There's More Hope For Mesa & X This Summer   X.Org   2011-03-19
Cairo 1.12 Is Being Prepped With New Capabilities   GNOME   2011-01-24
Oh Hey, X.Org 7.6 Is Finally Released For Christmas!   X.Org   2010-12-20
X.Org GSoC 2010 With KMS, Cairo, Etc. What Was Done?   X.Org   2010-11-11
Patches So Nouveau Users Can Try Out Wayland   Wayland   2010-10-29
A Tentative Schedule For XDS 2010   X.Org   2010-09-08
XDS 2010 Has Been Moved To A Tobacco Factory   X.Org   2010-09-03
Who Contributed The Most During X Server 1.9?   X.Org   2010-09-02
Working On The X.Org 7.6 Katamari   X.Org   2010-08-10
NVIDIA Publishes Code For X Synchronization Fences   NVIDIA   2010-06-28
If Or When Will X12 Actually Materialize?   X.Org   2010-06-01
Intel X.Org 2.12 Driver To Render Text/Glyphs Faster   Intel   2010-05-24
X.Org Project Has Five New Summer Projects   X.Org   2010-04-26
The GStreamer, Cairo Video Hackfest Results   GNOME   2009-11-22
X.Org 7.6 May Be Released In October 2010   X.Org   2009-10-21
X.Org @ FOSDEM 2008 Update   Linux Events   2008-01-22
X.Org 7.2 RC3   X.Org   2006-12-04