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Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop Gaming Performance Comparison   Operating Systems   2013-01-31

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Miracle-WM 0.2 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2024-04-19
LXQt 2.0 Released For Qt6 Desktop Port, Greater Wayland Support   Desktop   2024-04-17
WayVNC 0.8 Adds Auto Server-Side Resizing Of Headless Outputs, Detached Mode   Wayland   2024-02-26
Sway 1.9 Released - Using New wlroots Rendering API For Better Performance   Wayland   2024-02-24
Miracle-WM Announced As A Wayland Compositor Built On Mir   Wayland   2024-02-19
Fedora Atomic Desktops Born Out Of Fedora Silverblue Success   Fedora   2024-02-09
Sway 1.9-rc1 Supports New Wayland Extensions & Better Rendering Performance   Wayland   2024-01-26
Wayland Protocols 1.33 Released With DMA-BUF Stable, Adds Transient Seat Protocol   Wayland   2024-01-19
Wine 9.0-rc4 Released With More Wayland Fixes, Additional Game Fixes   WINE   2024-01-06
WayVNC 0.8 Preparing Transient Seats, Automatic Server-Side Resizing & Detached Mode   Wayland   2023-12-11
Using Miriway For Empowering Xfce / MATE / LXQt & Other Desktops With Wayland   Wayland   2023-12-01
wlroots 0.17 Adds New Wayland Protocols, Continued Vulkan Renderer Work   Wayland   2023-11-22
Louvre Is A New C++ Library Helping To Build Wayland Compositors   Wayland   2023-11-17
WayVNC 0.7 Released As VNC Server For Wlroots-Based Wayland Compositors   Wayland   2023-10-05
wlroots Merges Wayland Tearing Control Support   Wayland   2023-09-30
CentOS ISA SIG Experimenting With New x86-64 Baseline For Better Performance   Operating Systems   2023-08-28
Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS   Valve   2023-08-01
Two Fedora Spins Eye Going X.Org-less   Fedora   2023-06-23
Fedora Onyx Aims To Be A New Fedora Linux Immutable Variant   Fedora   2023-05-01
Arch Linux Installer v2.5.4 Adds Initial Swapfile Support   Arch Linux   2023-03-29
Google Chrome/Chromium Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support   Google   2023-03-22
NVIDIA Improving wlroots For Better Dual-GPU Gaming Performance   Wayland   2023-03-16
GNOME 44 Mutter Adds fractional_scale_v1 Wayland Support   GNOME   2023-03-05
Sway & wl-roots Land Support For Wayland Fractional Scaling   Wayland   2023-02-13
RBOS Updated As The Linux Live Environment Showcasing The Latest Wayland Code   Wayland   2023-01-17
Fedora Budgie & Sway Spins Approved For Fedora 38   Fedora   2023-01-03
Radeon RX 7900 XT/XTX, EPYC Genoa & Linux 6.2 Developments Made For An Exciting Month   Phoronix   2023-01-01
Sway 1.8 Released With More Secure Screen Locking, High Res Scroll Wheel Events   Wayland   2022-12-25
Fedora 38 Might Ship With A Sway ISO Spin   Fedora   2022-12-02
Wayland Protocols 1.31 Released With Fractional Scaling Support   Wayland   2022-11-29
Sway 1.8-rc1 Wayland Compositor Brings More Secure Screen Lockers, Improved Vulkan Code   Wayland   2022-11-26
Wayland Protocol Finally Ready For Fractional Scaling   Wayland   2022-11-25
wlroots 0.16 Released With More Stable Vulkan Renderer, High Resolution Scrolling   Wayland   2022-11-12
Mesa Lands DMA-BUF Feedback Support For Vulkan On Wayland   Mesa   2022-10-22
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 5965WX Benchmarks Show Some Speedups With Linux 6.0 Git   AMD   2022-08-10
Xfce's Xfwm4 Sees Wayland Port With Wlroots   Wayland   2022-07-15
New Wayland Protocol Proposed For Fractional Scaling   Wayland   2022-04-06
KWinFT 5.24 Released - Continues To Advance Its Wayland Support, Expand On Wlroots   KDE   2022-02-09
Sway 1.7 Released With VR Headset DRM Leasing, Renames "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia"   Wayland   2022-01-23
Sway 1.7 Nears Release With Less Abrasive NVIDIA Option, Zero-Copy Direct Scanout   Wayland   2022-01-09
Happy New Year & A Wrap On 2021   Phoronix   2021-12-31
Sway 1.7-rc1 Has Better Zero-Copy Direct Scanout, Drops "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia"   Wayland   2021-12-23
Sway's wlroots Lands Initial Vulkan Renderer   Wayland   2021-10-28
NVIDIA 495 Linux Beta Driver Released With GBM Support   NVIDIA   2021-10-14
Linux 5.15, AMD / Radeon Advancements, Intel SDSi Dominated Discussions This Month   Phoronix   2021-10-01
NVIDIA Confirms Sway Wayland Compositor Works Fine With Their New GBM Driver Support   NVIDIA   2021-09-04
Wayland Protocols 1.22 Released With DRM Object Leasing Support For VR HMDs   Wayland   2021-09-01
KWinFT Lands Code To Now Use WLROOTS For Wayland   KDE   2021-07-16
Sway 1.6.1 Wayland Compositor Released With WLROOTS 0.14   Wayland   2021-06-25
Surface Suspension Protocol Proposed For Wayland   Wayland   2021-06-20
KWinFT Going Through Code Refactoring, Working On WLROOTS-Based Usage   KDE   2021-06-13
Archinstall 2.2 Released For Improving This Easy-To-Use Arch Linux Installer   Arch Linux   2021-05-28
XWayland Lands Support For Sharing Pixmaps Via MIT-SHM   X.Org   2021-05-19
Taiwins 0.3 Released As Newest Wayland Compositor Release   Wayland   2021-05-04
Arch-Based Endeavour OS Spins Up April Release, Adds Sway Community Edition   Arch Linux   2021-04-18
Sway 1.6 Wayland Compositor Released With Smoother Move/Resize   Wayland   2021-04-07
FreeBSD: Sway Compositor Can Run While KDE Plasma On Wayland Is Still A Work-In-Progress   BSD   2021-03-19
Sway 1.6-rc1 Released With Better Touchscreen/Tablet Support   Wayland   2021-03-17
LABWC Is The Newest Stacking Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2021-03-06
VRR, Lower Latency Likely Coming For KDE's KWin Wayland Compositor   KDE   2021-02-22
OBS Studio Merges Its EGL-Wayland Code To Natively Support Wayland   Wayland   2021-02-12
Linux 5.11, Pyston, Wayland & Other January Excitement   Phoronix   2021-02-01
Taiwins Wayland Compositor Switches From WLROOTS To Its Own Library   Wayland   2021-01-31
Vulkan Wayland Compositors Are Nearing Reality   Vulkan   2021-01-20
Gentoo Saw Total Commits Rise By 42% In 2020, Great Progress On Wayland   Operating Systems   2021-01-17
Fedora 34 To Ship An ISO With The i3 Window Manager   Fedora   2021-01-13
Radeon RX 6800 XT Seeing Some Slight Gains With Linux 5.11   Linux Kernel   2020-12-21
Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Wayland   Mesa   2020-11-25
Taiwins 0.2 Released As Modular Wayland Compositor That Supports Lua Scripting   Wayland   2020-09-18
Cage Wayland Compositor For Kiosk Use-Cases Updated With Direct Scan-Out, New Protocols   Wayland   2020-07-17
Sway 1.5 Wayland Compositor Released With Adaptive-Sync/VRR, New Protocols   Wayland   2020-07-16
Sway 1.5-RC1 Wayland Compositor Brings VRR / Adaptive-Sync, New Protocol Support   Wayland   2020-06-25
openSUSE Leap 15.2 Hits RC Phase With GNOME 3.34 + KDE Plasma 5.18, Sway   SUSE   2020-05-29
Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.1 Released For Cross-Platform, Open-Source Benchmarking   Phoronix Test Suite   2020-05-25
TAIWINS Is A Compact Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2020-05-13
The Wayland Book Is Now Freely Available   Wayland   2020-05-05
GNOME's Mutter Working On Variable Refresh Rate Support (VRR / Adaptive-Sync / FreeSync)   GNOME   2020-03-31
Sway Wayland Compositor Seeing Adaptive-Sync/VRR Support   Wayland   2020-03-04
LavaLauncher 1.6 Released As A Simple Dock/Launcher For Wayland   Wayland   2020-02-17
Sway 1.4 Wayland Compositor Brings VNC Support, Initial Bits For MATE Panel Support   Wayland   2020-01-22
Sway 1.3 Release Candidate Brings Many Changes For This i3-Inspired Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2020-01-01
Ubuntu's Mir Display Stack Accomplished A Lot In 2019 For Being Discounted Two Years Ago   Ubuntu   2019-12-14
WXRC Is The Wayland XR Compositor For VR Headsets   Wayland   2019-11-15
Ubuntu/Mir Developer Issues Porting Guide To Help Port MATE To Wayland   Ubuntu   2019-09-21
XWayland Sees Updated Protocol Support To Help WLROOTS & KDE   X.Org   2019-09-05
Sway 1.2 Released For This Popular i3 Inspired Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2019-08-27
Stepping Towards Better VR Headset Support On Wayland   Wayland   2019-08-12
Wave Hello To WEV - Similar To X.Org's Xev For Event Viewing On Wayland   Wayland   2019-08-11
Sway 1.2-RC1 Released For The i3-Inspired Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2019-08-09
A Vulkan Extension Is Being Worked On To Acquire Exclusive Control Of A Wayland Display   Vulkan   2019-07-16
Xfway Aims To Provide A Wayland Compositor Inspired By Xfce's Xfwm4   Desktop   2019-06-28
Sway 1.1 Released With Switch Event Support, Touch Support For Swaybar   Wayland   2019-06-03
Sway 1.1 Is Bringing Touch Support To Swaybar, Other Features & Fixes   Wayland   2019-05-03
Wio: Plan 9's Rio Windowing System Re-Implemented As A Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2019-05-01
"Cage" Sees Initial Test Release For Kiosk-Like Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2019-04-24
Sway 1.0 Released For This i3-Compatible Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2019-03-11
The Sway Wayland Compositor Is Now Available From Debian Experimental   Debian   2019-02-17
Sway 1.0 Close To Release For This Very Promising Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2019-02-11
Sway 1.0 RC1 Rolls Out With Wayland Clipboard Managers, Swayidle/Swaylock Changes   Wayland   2019-02-05
Sway Adds Relative Pointer Support To Its 1.0 Feature List   Wayland   2019-01-31
Cage Is A New Wayland Compositor For Kiosk/Full-Screen-One-App Deployments   Wayland   2018-12-27
A Look At The Wayland/Weston Development Stats For 2018   Wayland   2018-12-26
Sway 1.0 Beta 2 Rolls Out For Feature-Rich i3-Compatible Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2018-11-30
i3 Window Manager v4.16 Released   X.Org   2018-11-05
System76 Unveils Thelio "Open" Desktops With Intel/AMD CPU Options, NVIDIA/Radeon GPUs   Hardware   2018-11-01
Sway 1.0 Beta Released - Offers 100% Compatibility With i3 Window Manager   Wayland   2018-10-20
Sway 1.0 Alpha 6 Released, Now Supports Moving/Resizing Tiled Windows With The Mouse   Wayland   2018-09-22
Mir Now Supports XDG Shell Stable   Ubuntu   2018-08-11
Sway 1.0 Alpha 5 Brings Multi-GPU Support, Virtual Keyboard Protocol   Wayland   2018-08-06
Wayland Shells From The Perspective Of WLROOTS   Wayland   2018-08-02
Sway 1.0 Alpha 4 Released With Real-Time Video Capture, Atomic Layout Updates   Wayland   2018-07-18
Wayland-Protocols 1.15 Adds XDG-Decoration Protocol For Server-Side Window Decorations   Wayland   2018-07-05
Sway 1.0 Wayland Compositor Nears With Floating Windows, Tablet Support & More   Wayland   2018-06-19
A Session Suspension & Restoration Protocol Proposed For Wayland   KDE   2018-06-18
KDE Plasma Developers Collaborating With Sway On Wayland Support   KDE   2018-05-14
Sway 1.0 Reaches Alpha For This Popular Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2018-04-07
Wayland Made More Inroads In 2017   Wayland   2017-12-29
Wlroots Is A New, Modular Wayland Compositor Library   Wayland   2017-12-28
Wayland Had An Impressive 2017 With KDE Support Maturing, Mir Switching Focus   Wayland   2017-12-13
Way-Cooler Is Still Around As An i3-Inspired Wayland Compositor Written In Rust   Wayland   2017-12-04
Sway 0.15 Wayland Compositor Released With Raspberry Pi Support, Improved Clipboard   Wayland   2017-11-09
KDE Server Decoration Protocol Proposed For Wayland-Protocols   KDE   2017-10-27
Sway Is Taking Flight As A Featureful i3-Compatible Wayland Compositor   Wayland   2017-08-10
Sway 0.14 Supports KDE Server Decorations Protocol, Mouse Button Bindings   Wayland   2017-07-27
Sway Wayland Compositor Adding Proprietary NVIDIA Driver Support   Wayland   2017-04-30
Steam's Survey Shows A Tiny Increase In Linux Gamers For March   Linux Gaming   2017-04-02
Some Of The Lesser Known Wayland Compositors   Wayland   2017-03-19
Sway 0.12 Wayland Compositor Released   Wayland   2017-03-18
The Debate Over GLVND In Fedora 25 Is Still Going On   Fedora   2017-02-07
Fedora 25 Using GLVND For Mesa Has Been Causing Headaches   Fedora   2017-02-04
Sway i3-Compatible Wayland Compositor Ends Out 2016 With v0.11   Wayland   2016-12-27
FreeBSD Making Progress On Wayland Support, The Basics Are Working   BSD   2016-12-22
"Way Cooler" Is A Wayland Window Manager / Compositor Written In Rust   Wayland   2016-08-13
The Sway i3-Compatible WM For Wayland Now Supports Tabbed/Stacking Layouts   Wayland   2016-04-29
Wayland Protocol Extensions Are Being Talked About A Lot This Week   Wayland   2016-03-31
Wayland Live OS Is Now Based On Debian Testing, Working KDE Wayland Support   Wayland   2016-02-09
Linux 4.3 Scheduler Change "Potentially Affects Every SMP Workload In Existence"   Linux Kernel   2015-09-01
An i3-Compatible Tiling Window Manager For Wayland   Wayland   2015-08-18
KDE Works On Input Redirection, Wayland Cursor Themes   KDE   2014-03-18
X.Org Server 1.16 Planned For A July Debut   X.Org   2013-12-27
239 News Stories & 20 Articles About Linux This Month   Phoronix   2013-01-31
0 A.D. Alpha 11 "Kronos" Begins Doing GLSL   Linux Gaming   2012-09-08