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Daniel Stone Articles & Reviews

The Wayland Situation: Facts About X vs. Wayland   Display Drivers   2013-06-07
X.Org 7.5 Released. Wait, Nope!   Software   2009-04-01
X Server 1.4.1 Is Released, No Joke   Software   2008-06-10
Open-Source Developers Talk About AMD   Display Drivers   2007-09-15

Daniel Stone Linux & Open-Source News

Wayland Protocols 1.33 Released With DMA-BUF Stable, Adds Transient Seat Protocol   Wayland   2024-01-19
Mesa 23.3 Adds EGL Explicit Device Support   Mesa   2023-07-31
Mesa Vulkan KHR_present_wait Support Extended To Wayland   Mesa   2023-05-03
FreeDesktop.org GitLab Service Restored   Free Software   2022-06-13
Arm Is Now Backing Panfrost Gallium3D As Open-Source Mali Graphics Driver   X.Org   2020-09-16
Wayland's Weston Compositor Introduces Kiosk/Fullscreen Shell   Wayland   2020-07-30
The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews / Benchmarks Of The Past Decade   Phoronix   2019-12-12
A Vast Majority Of Linux's Input Improvements Are Developed By One Individual   X.Org   2019-10-16
Wayland's Weston Now Supports EGL Partial Updates For Better Performance   Wayland   2019-06-27
Wayland 1.17 & Weston 6.0 Reach Alpha, Officially Releasing Next Month   Wayland   2019-02-19
A Look At The Wayland/Weston Development Stats For 2018   Wayland   2018-12-26
Wayland's Weston Switching Over To The Meson Build System   Wayland   2018-12-13
FreeDesktop.org Might Formally Join Forces With The X.Org Foundation   X.Org   2018-10-15
GitLab Is A Vast Improvement To FreeDesktop.org's Infrastructure   Free Software   2018-07-29
Wayland's Weston Picks Up Force-On, Modifiers, Aspect Ratio Handling   Wayland   2018-07-07
The Most Popular Linux / Open-Source News Of The Past 14 Years   Phoronix   2018-06-05
FreeDesktop.org Migrating To GitLab   X.Org   2018-05-07
With Vulkan 1.1 It's Technically Possible To Write A Pure Wayland Compositor   Vulkan   2018-03-08
Weston 4.0 Alpha Brings Atomic Mode-Setting, New Protocol Support   Wayland   2018-02-27
Atomic Mode-Setting Finally Landing For Wayland's Weston Compositor   Wayland   2018-02-06
GNOME's Mutter Now Supports GBM With Modifiers - Allowing Tiling & Compression   GNOME   2018-01-24
Atomic Mode-Setting Support For Wayland's Weston Might Finally Be Ready To Land   Wayland   2017-12-20
Revised DRI3 v1.1 Modifiers Support For Mesa   Mesa   2017-07-21
Etnaviv Hoping For Last Minute Improvements In Mesa 17.2   Mesa   2017-07-12
The Most Popular Linux News Of The Past 13 Years   Phoronix   2017-05-29
It's Becoming Easier To Write Linux DRM Drivers   Linux Kernel   2017-04-11
All FreeDesktop.org Projects Now Appear To Have A Contributor Covenant   Free Software   2017-04-08
Collabora's Graphics Work So Far In 2017, They Are Working On Soft FP64 For Mesa   X.Org   2017-03-01
Atomic Mode-Setting Updated For Wayland's Weston   Wayland   2016-12-10
Developers Explore Meson Build System For Wayland / Weston   Wayland   2016-11-29
Atomic Mode-Setting For Wayland's Weston Has Been Revised   Wayland   2016-11-16
The Most Popular Linux News Over The Past 12 Years   Phoronix   2016-06-04
NVIDIA Continues Discussing Their Controversial Wayland Plans With Developers   NVIDIA   2016-04-03
It Looks Like X.Org Might Be Safe For A Few More Years   X.Org   2016-01-12
Atomic Mode-Setting Support For Wayland's Weston   Wayland   2015-06-22
XWayland Hit By Its First Security Advisory: Missing Authentication   Linux Security   2015-06-10
The Most Popular Linux & Open-Source News Over The Past 11 Years   Phoronix   2015-06-05
Valve Is Giving Out Their Steam Linux Games To Mesa Developers   Valve   2015-04-10
ARM Talks Up Wayland For Mali   Wayland   2014-08-23
The Most Popular Linux Stories Of The Past 10 Years   Phoronix   2014-06-05
Wayland, Weston 1.2 Development Statistics   Wayland   2013-07-24
June Was A Very Diverse Month For Linux Enthusiasts   Phoronix   2013-06-30
Replacing X With Wayland On The Raspberry Pi   Wayland   2013-05-27
Mir Display Server Now Uses XKB Common   Wayland   2013-04-17
More Mir Talking Points Come Out Of Canonical   Ubuntu   2013-03-11
A Note To Canonical: "Don't Piss On Wayland"   Wayland   2013-03-05
Upstream X/Wayland Developers Bash Canonical, Mir   Fedora   2013-03-04
Mesa Threading Support Is Slow, Still Being Developed   Mesa   2013-02-07
Moving On From An X.Org World To Wayland   Wayland   2013-02-06
The Most Popular Linux Stories Over Eight Years   Free Software   2012-12-21
XWayland Gets Updated   Wayland   2012-11-07
X.Org Server 1.13 RC1 Packs In Many Changes   X.Org   2012-07-10
Dance Around The Fire: X.Org XAA Is Burned   X.Org   2012-07-10
The New RandR Should Come To X Server 1.13   X.Org   2012-07-04
To No Surprise, X.Org Server Progress Is Slowing   X.Org   2012-07-04
The Most Popular Linux News Of Eight Years   Hardware   2012-06-06
X Input 2.2 Is Ready To Be Touched   X.Org   2012-03-02
X Input 2.2 Multi-Touch Is Feeling Good   X.Org   2012-02-08
Plans For X.Org, Wayland At FOSDEM 2012 Are Drawn   Free Software   2012-01-22
An Easy But Serious Screensaver Security Problem In X.Org   Linux Security   2012-01-18
XAA In X.Org Has Finally Met Its Executioner   X.Org   2012-01-18
X.Org Multi-Touch Support Finally Set To Land   X.Org   2011-12-14
What To Expect From X Input 2.1; Multi-Touch Is Delayed   X.Org   2011-09-02
X.Org Developers' Conference 2011 Approaches   X.Org   2011-08-22
Two Months To The X.Org Chicago Conference   X.Org   2011-07-14
Synaptics Gets Predictable Motion, Smooth Scrolling   X.Org   2011-06-09
Smooth Scrolling Targeted For X.Org Server 1.12   X.Org   2011-06-03
X Input 2.1 Not Coming Until X.Org Server 1.12   X.Org   2011-05-12
X.Org Server 1.11 Release Planned For Mid-August   X.Org   2011-03-01
2011 X.Org Foundation Election Candidates   X.Org   2011-02-16
The Fourth Version Of X.Org Multi-Touch Support   X.Org   2010-12-28
X.Org Multi-Touch Nears Completion   X.Org   2010-12-17
X Input 2.1 Multi-Touch Getting Back On Track   X.Org   2010-12-02
The X Input 2.1 Multi-Touch Implementation Is Here   X.Org   2010-11-13
Concerns Over Merging Drivers Back Into The X Server   X.Org   2010-04-08
X Server 1.9 Is Scheduled To Be Here In August   X.Org   2010-04-06
Issues Within The X.Org Foundation?   X.Org   2010-02-18
Jerome's Radeon KMS Short-Term TODO List   Radeon   2010-02-07
Notes From X@FOSDEM 2010: GLSL, X, Etc   X.Org   2010-02-07
X@FOSDEM 2010 Is Now A Half-Day Event   X.Org   2010-01-30
X@FOSDEM 2010 Talks Planned So Far   X.Org   2010-01-08
New X.Org Release Process Has Been Reached   X.Org   2009-10-01
X.Org 7.5 Is Frozen, XKB2 Gets Postponed Again   X.Org   2009-08-31
X.Org 7.5 / X Server 1.7: No Branching, No Beta   X.Org   2009-07-22
Will The X.Org 7.5 Release Schedule Be Met?   X.Org   2009-07-08
X.Org 7.5 Release Schedule Slips Again   X.Org   2009-05-27
X.Org 7.5 Release Schedule Revised For July   X.Org   2009-04-26
Radeon vs. RadeonHD Fighting Continues   Radeon   2008-10-21
X.Org 7.5 May Be An April Fool's Joke   X.Org   2008-09-11
X.Org 7.4 Release Planned For Sep 10   X.Org   2008-09-06
XDS 2008, With Input & GL Happiness Days   X.Org   2008-09-02
XDS 2008 Quickly Approaching   X.Org   2008-08-30
XDS 2008 In Less Than Two Weeks   X.Org   2008-08-24
X Developers' Summit 2008 Details   X.Org   2008-07-31
X Devs Drop NVIDIA Auto-Config Support   X.Org   2008-07-20
Multi-Pointer X Merged To X.Org Master   X.Org   2008-05-27
XDC 2008 Kicks Off This Morning   X.Org   2008-04-16
X.Org FOSDEM 2008 Videos Available   Linux Events   2008-02-27
No "Input Hotness" For X Server 1.5   X.Org   2007-12-06
Two Bugs Left Before X Server 1.4.1   X.Org   2007-12-01
X Server 1.4.1 Delayed To November 11   X.Org   2007-10-08
Planned Features For X.Org 7.4, 7.5   X.Org   2007-10-02
AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs   AMD   2007-09-12
X.Org 7.4 To Get Multi-Pointer X Support   X.Org   2007-08-18
R500 Reverse Engineering   AMD   2007-03-05