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| Microsoft Helping Out In Making The Linux Kernel Language More Inclusive | Microsoft | 2024-03-30 |
| Linux 6.9 To Allow Larger Frame-Buffer Console Font Size For Today's 4K Displays | Linux Kernel | 2024-03-22 |
| Nouveau Driver Squeezes In Some Last Minute Minor Additions For Linux 6.8 | Linux Kernel | 2024-02-23 |
| Intel Framebuffer Driver Set To Be Retired For Old i8xx/i9xx Graphics | Intel | 2024-01-05 |
| Linux To Drop Support For 15 Year Old, Never-Shipped Intel "Carillo Ranch" | Intel | 2023-12-13 |
| Open-Source Graphics Driver Updates Begin Queuing For Linux 6.6 | Linux Kernel | 2023-07-13 |
| Linux 6.4 Kernel Graphics Drivers Include More Meteor Lake Code, Rockchip 4K, QAIC | Linux Kernel | 2023-04-24 |
| Initial Support For AMD's Next-Gen, Multi-XCC CDNA Accelerator Starting With Linux 6.4 | AMD | 2023-04-04 |
| Linux 6.3-rc3 Released: It's "Fairly Big" | Linux Kernel | 2023-03-19 |
| Linux 6.4 DRM To See New "imx25" Driver, 4K Support For Rockchip Display Driver | Hardware | 2023-03-16 |
| Linux 6.2-rc3 Released - "Starting To Look A Lot More Normal" | Linux Kernel | 2023-01-08 |
| The Many New Features On The Horizon For Linux 6.2 | Linux Kernel | 2022-12-09 |
| FBDEV Drivers Will Honor "nomodeset" With Linux 6.2 | Linux Kernel | 2022-11-17 |
| Wayland's Weston 11.0 Released With HDR Display & Multi-GPU Preparations | Wayland | 2022-09-22 |
| Linux 6.0-rc3 Released In Marking 31 Years Since Linus Torvalds Announced It | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-28 |
| FBDEV Updates For Linux 6.0 Bring Fixes For The Atari Graphics Chipset Driver | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-07 |
| Linux 5.20 To Bring New Intel & AMD Hardware Support, IO_uring Features & Much More | Linux Kernel | 2022-07-29 |
| Linux 5.20 To Feature Faster Console Scrolling At Boot For Old FBDEV Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-23 |
| Fedora 36 Is A Terrific Release Especially For Linux Enthusiasts, Power Users | Fedora | 2022-05-10 |
| Fedora Linux 36 Being Released Next Week | Fedora | 2022-05-05 |
| Fedora 37 Looks Like It Will Proceed With Plan To Remove Legacy X.Org Drivers | Fedora | 2022-04-22 |
| Fedora 37 Considering Removal Of Legacy X.Org Drivers | Fedora | 2022-04-08 |
| CentOS Hyperscale SIG Updates systemd & Linux Build, Eyeing Btrfs Transactional Updates | Red Hat | 2022-04-04 |
| Fedora Linux 36 Beta Now Available For Testing | Fedora | 2022-03-29 |
| Linux 5.18 Graphics Driver Changes From FreeSync Video Mode To New Intel Hardware | Linux Kernel | 2022-03-24 |
| FBDEV Drivers See More Fixes With Linux 5.18 | Free Software | 2022-03-23 |
| Linux 5.18 To Bring New Intel Drivers, Optimization For AMD EPYC, C11 & Much More | Linux Kernel | 2022-03-11 |
| Linux 5.18 Will Speed Up Some FBDEV Operations By 6x, ASpeed AST2600 DRM Code Added | Linux Kernel | 2022-03-03 |
| FBDEV Console Patches Optimize Performance - Print Directory Listing ~25% Faster | Linux Kernel | 2022-02-21 |
| Linux 5.17-rc3 Restores FBDEV Hardware-Accelerated Scrolling, Mixed Bag of Random Stuff | Linux Kernel | 2022-02-06 |
| Wayland's Weston 10.0 Compositor Released With DMA-BUF Feedback, Libseat Support | Wayland | 2022-02-01 |
| DirectFB2 Aims To Resurrect DirectFB For Embedded Systems | Free Software | 2022-01-27 |
| Developer Steps Up Wanting To Maintain Linux's FBDEV Subsystem | Hardware | 2022-01-16 |
| More Features Begin Lining Up For Fedora 36 | Fedora | 2021-11-29 |
| Red Hat Patch Proposal To Split FBDEV Core Support | Linux Kernel | 2021-08-27 |
| Linux 5.14 To Bring SimpleDRM Driver, VC4 HDR, Marks More AGP Code As Legacy | Linux Kernel | 2021-05-13 |
| Raspberry Pi "VC4" DRM Driver Sees 10/12 BPC Color Depth With Linux 5.12 | Raspberry Pi | 2021-01-06 |
| Open-Source Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 5.11 Have Lots Of Intel + AMD Presents | Linux Kernel | 2020-12-13 |
| Another Linux FBDEV Driver Poised For Removal In Favor Of Superior DRM Alternative | Linux Kernel | 2020-12-01 |
| DMA-BUF HEAPS Coming To Linux 5.6, Poulsbo Pops Back Up To Get Page-Flipping | Linux Kernel | 2019-12-17 |
| Fedora Looking At Using VESA-Based FBDEV Driver, Knocking Off Old VESA & OpenChrome | Fedora | 2019-04-26 |
| SUSE Develops New Driver That Exposes DRM Atop FBDEV Frame-Buffer Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2019-03-26 |
| Wayland's Weston Moving Towards Its Next Release Soon | Wayland | 2019-01-20 |
| XGI Display Driver Finally On The Linux Kernel Chopping Block | Hardware | 2019-01-19 |
| DRM Graphics Drivers Already Queuing Changes For Linux 5.1 | Linux Kernel | 2019-01-08 |
| FBDEV Is Still Alive In 2019, Picking Up A Few Minor Improvements In Linux 4.21 | Linux Kernel | 2019-01-04 |
| Google's Pixel 3 Is Using The MSM DRM Driver, More Android Phones Moving To DRM/KMS Code | Google | 2018-11-17 |
| GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Linux Benchmarks Coming Today, NVIDIA Driver Bringing Vulkan RTX | NVIDIA | 2018-09-19 |
| Linux 4.19 Adds Deferred Console Takeover Support For FBDEV - Cleaner Boot Process | Linux Kernel | 2018-08-23 |
| Wayland's Weston Picks Up Force-On, Modifiers, Aspect Ratio Handling | Wayland | 2018-07-07 |
| Allwinner Releases New User-Space OpenGL Mali Binary Blobs | Hardware | 2018-06-25 |
| VFIO Adds Sample Mediated Device Display Drivers | Hardware | 2018-06-13 |
| Generic FBDEV Emulation Continues To Be Worked On For DRM Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2018-02-24 |
| VESA X.Org Driver Sees First Update In Three Years | X.Org | 2018-02-17 |
| 34 More Patches Roll Out For AMDGPU DC With Raven Ridge Fixes Plus Color Management | Radeon | 2018-02-12 |
| The Big DRM Update Lands In Linux 4.16: DC Multi-Display Sync, More Cannonlake | Linux Kernel | 2018-02-02 |
| SUSE Dropping Mainline Work On Their In-Kernel Bootsplash System | Linux Kernel | 2018-01-18 |
| Some Of What's Coming For Wayland's Weston 4.0 Compositor | Wayland | 2018-01-14 |
| Generic FBDEV Emulation Proposed For DRM Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2017-12-31 |
| Why SUSE Is Using FBCON Rather Than DRM/KMS For Their In-Kernel Boot Splash | SUSE | 2017-12-18 |
| FBDEV Is Still Seeing Improvements With Linux 4.14 | Linux Kernel | 2017-09-15 |
| Intel Stages More Code In DRM-Next For Linux 4.14 | Intel | 2017-07-18 |
| Intel Sends First Batch Of Changes To DRM-Next For Linux 4.12: 550+ Patches | Intel | 2017-03-07 |
| FBDEV Is Still Chugging Along With Linux 4.11 | Hardware | 2017-02-28 |
| The Development Pace Of Systemd Fell Sharply This Year | systemd | 2016-12-30 |
| The New Linux 4.10 Kernel Features So Far: AMD Zen, TBM3, More ARM | Linux Kernel | 2016-12-16 |
| The Linux Kernel Is Now Left Without An Official FBDEV Maintainer | Linux Kernel | 2016-12-14 |
| Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping FBDEV Staging Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2016-12-08 |
| Amlogic Meson VPU DRM Driver In The Works | Linux Kernel | 2016-12-01 |
| MPV 0.21 Player Adds CUDA, Better Raspberry Pi Support | Multimedia | 2016-10-20 |
| Qt's Comprehensive Display/Graphics Options | Qt | 2016-09-19 |
| DRM Text Mode Proposed As Alternative To FBDEV/FBCON | Linux Kernel | 2016-07-29 |
| The Linux DRM Drivers Continue Marching Ahead With Atomic Support | Linux Kernel | 2016-06-06 |
| Systemd 230 Is Upsetting Some Over Its KillUserProcess Setting | systemd | 2016-05-28 |
| Systemd Reverts Its Stance On Letting Users Access Frame-Buffer Devices | systemd | 2016-05-24 |
| Systemd 230 Opens Up A New Graphics Vulnerability & FBDEV Still Should Die | systemd | 2016-05-23 |
| ARM Posts A New Mali Display DRM Driver | Arm | 2016-04-01 |
| TinyDRM: Support For Simple & Small Displays | X.Org | 2016-03-16 |
| AMDGPU Driver Said To Be Much Faster With Linux 4.5-rc2 Kernel | Radeon | 2016-02-01 |
| More Intel Kabylake Enablement Coming To Linux 4.5 | Intel | 2015-12-22 |
| Intel Has Some New DRM Graphics Code For Testing: More Kabylake, MST Audio | Intel | 2015-12-19 |
| Threaded Input Is Back To Being Worked On For The X.Org Server | X.Org | 2015-12-09 |
| Linux 4.4 DRM Pull Has Raspberry Pi Driver, AMDGPU Improvements | Hardware | 2015-11-08 |
| A Call To Stop Making FBDEV Linux Frame-Buffer Drivers | Hardware | 2015-09-24 |
| The Etnaviv Open-Source Driver Is Quietly Making Progress | X.Org | 2015-09-17 |
| More Atomic Mode-Setting Work Coming For Linux 4.4 | Linux Kernel | 2015-09-14 |
| Three Years Later, FBDEV Drivers Still Active In The Linux Kernel | Hardware | 2015-09-07 |
| FBDEV Is Still (Barely) Alive Within The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2015-02-11 |
| Atomic Mode-Setting Moves Along For KMS Drivers | Intel | 2014-11-03 |
| Early Adopters Already Hit By Fedora Dropping Old Linux GPU Drivers | Hardware | 2014-09-24 |
| Intel Lands More Graphics Changes For Linux 3.18 | Intel | 2014-09-03 |
| GNOME Aims To Get Mutter-Wayland Running With LLVMpipe | Wayland | 2014-04-12 |
| Wayland's Weston Can Now Be Built With A Libinput Back-End | Wayland | 2014-03-13 |
| SlateKit Base: A Linux OS With Qt5 Running Off KMS/FBDEV | Qt | 2014-02-08 |
| FBDEV Is Still Not Deprecated In The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2014-01-24 |
| Linux 3.14 Officializes Broadwell, Deprecates Legacy UMS | Intel | 2014-01-16 |
| Linux 3.14 To Have PRIME Support For NVIDIA Tegra | NVIDIA | 2014-01-08 |
| The Vivante Mesa Driver Is Still Brewing | Mesa | 2013-12-25 |
| X.Org Server "Chai" Release Brings Many Fixes | X.Org | 2013-12-10 |
| Wayland Weston 1.3.1 Released With Many Fixes | Wayland | 2013-11-01 |
| Intel Does Another Batch Of Linux 3.13 Graphics Changes | Linux Kernel | 2013-10-24 |
| Simple DMA-BUF Client Posted For Wayland's Weston | Wayland | 2013-10-22 |
| Wayland & Weston 1.3 Have Been Released | Wayland | 2013-10-10 |
| The State Of Open-Source ARM GPU Drivers | Arm | 2013-09-27 |
| Systemd Gets Generic Multi-Session, Session Devices | systemd | 2013-09-17 |
| Libhybris Proposed For Wayland's Weston | Wayland | 2013-09-06 |
| SimpleDRM Driver Published Ahead Of Linux 3.12 | Linux Kernel | 2013-09-02 |
| Features, Performance Work Still To Come To Mir | Ubuntu | 2013-08-29 |
| Fedora 21 Will Try To Abandon Non-KMS GPU Drivers | Fedora | 2013-08-27 |
| Snapdragon DRM/KMS Driver Still Forthcoming | Free Software | 2013-08-19 |
| Linux's Common Display Framework Is Still Going | Linux Kernel | 2013-08-11 |
| Sailfish SDK Update Switches From X11 To Wayland | Hardware | 2013-08-02 |
| Freedreno DRM/Gallium3D Shines Well For ARM | Arm | 2013-07-30 |
| ARM Publishes New DRM Graphics Driver | Arm | 2013-07-25 |
| Intel GPU Driver Tries To Rip Out FBDEV Support | Intel | 2013-06-17 |
| Wayland 1.1 Officially Released With Weston 1.1 | Wayland | 2013-04-16 |
| Wayland 1.1, Weston 1.1 Pack Lots Of New Features | Wayland | 2013-04-09 |
| RDP Back-End Merged For Wayland's Weston | Wayland | 2013-04-02 |
| Atari, Amiga Improvements For X.org Xfbdev | X.Org | 2013-03-28 |
| Five Years Later, Intel Poulsbo Is Still A Linux Mess | Intel | 2013-03-15 |
| KMS Drivers To Unseat FBDEV For Embedded Linux | X.Org | 2013-03-09 |
| Wayland's Weston Gets A FreeRDP-Based Compositor | Wayland | 2013-03-02 |
| System Frame-Buffer Bus Proposed For Linux | Linux Kernel | 2013-02-18 |
| New ARM X.Org Driver Promises Better Performance | X.Org | 2013-02-01 |
| VESA BIOS Extension DRM Kernel Driver Released | Free Software | 2013-01-27 |
| An FBDEV Compositor Back-End For Wayland/Weston | Wayland | 2013-01-17 |
| Presenting The Common Display Framework | X.Org | 2012-11-23 |
| A Call For Deprecating The Linux Frame-Buffer FBDEV | Linux Kernel | 2012-08-30 |
| Linux 3.5-rc3 Kernel Released, Still A Bit Much | Linux Kernel | 2012-06-17 |
| The Generic Mode-Setting Driver Updated | X.Org | 2012-05-10 |
| Running The OMAPDRM On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS | Hardware | 2012-04-22 |
| A Linux Driver For USB-Based Projectors | Free Software | 2012-04-07 |
| KDrive, Xnest, Xvfb Called For Removal From X.Org | X.Org | 2012-03-27 |
| The Fallback Mode-Setting Driver Is Improved | X.Org | 2012-02-24 |
| Proposals To Split KMS & GPU Drivers, 2D Kernel API | Free Software | 2012-02-21 |
| DisplayLink KMS Driver Arrives, Supports Hot-Unplug | Linux Kernel | 2012-02-20 |
| Mesa 8.0 Advances Open-Source Linux Graphics Drivers | Mesa | 2012-02-09 |
| Intel's Medfield Still A Botched Binary Mess Under Linux? | Intel | 2012-01-08 |
| Radeon VM, DMA-BUF Will Go Into Linux 3.3 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2012-01-06 |
| A Christmas Update Of Phoronix Test Suite 3.6 | Phoronix | 2011-12-23 |
| A New Linux Frame-Buffer Driver Appears For Intel | Intel | 2011-12-08 |
| The Intel Poulsbo Open Driver TODO/Support List | Intel | 2011-11-24 |
| Experimental Code Published For Virtual CRTCs | X.Org | 2011-11-03 |
| TI Prepares Its Open DRM/KMS OMAP Driver | Linux Kernel | 2011-10-15 |
| Caveats In The Ubuntu 11.10 Graphics Stack | Ubuntu | 2011-10-13 |
| New, Generic X.Org KMS Driver Work | X.Org | 2011-09-30 |
| Mesa Kills Old Hardware Support: No More 3dfx Voodoo | Mesa | 2011-08-27 |
| The Sad State Of GPU Drivers For BSD, Solaris | BSD | 2011-08-25 |
| Legacy Mesa Drivers Receive Their Death Sentence | Mesa | 2011-08-24 |
| Native Display Auto-Detection For EGL | Mesa | 2011-08-16 |
