Weston Articles & Reviews |
Trying Out The Latest Wayland Linux Desktops With RBOS | Software | 2014-03-25 |
Why Wayland & Weston Were Forked | Software | 2013-03-29 |
Weston Linux & Open-Source News |
Wayland's Weston 14.0 Compositor Released | Wayland | 2024-09-04 |
Weston 14.0 Alpha Brings New Wayland Compositor Features | Wayland | 2024-08-14 |
Wayland 1.23 Alpha Released With OpenBSD Support & New APIs | Wayland | 2024-04-25 |
Wayland 1.23 Planned For Release Around The End Of May | Wayland | 2024-04-11 |
More Efficient VirtIO DRM Driver To Import Scanout Buffers From Other Devices | Virtualization | 2024-03-28 |
Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023 | Wayland | 2024-01-01 |
Red Hat Developing New xwayland-run & wlheadless-run Utilities | Wayland | 2023-11-29 |
Wayland's Weston 13.0 Released With Multi-Backend Support & Overlapping Outputs | Wayland | 2023-11-28 |
Louvre Is A New C++ Library Helping To Build Wayland Compositors | Wayland | 2023-11-17 |
Weston 13 Alpha Released With New Backends, Other Improvements | Wayland | 2023-10-16 |
FDBuild 0.1 Released To Make It Easier To Quickly Build Multiple Projects | Programming | 2023-10-12 |
Wayland's Weston 13 Compositor Planned For Release Next Month | Wayland | 2023-10-10 |
wlroots Merges Wayland Tearing Control Support | Wayland | 2023-09-30 |
Wayland Color Management Protocol Posted For Weston | Wayland | 2023-09-23 |
Wayland's Weston 12.0 Released With Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control | Wayland | 2023-05-17 |
Wayland's Weston 12 Alpha Brings Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control | Wayland | 2023-04-26 |
RBOS Updated As The Linux Live Environment Showcasing The Latest Wayland Code | Wayland | 2023-01-17 |
Wlroots-Based Xfce Xwfm4 Wayland Code Taking Shape | Wayland | 2022-12-21 |
oneVPL 2023.1 Released For Intel's Open-Source Video Processing Library | Intel | 2022-11-22 |
Apple M1 Linux GPU DRM Driver Now Running GNOME, Various Apps | Apple | 2022-09-29 |
The Work-In-Progress Rust-Written Apple DRM Driver Manages To Start Wayland's Weston | Apple | 2022-09-28 |
OpenJDK Java's Native Wayland Support Progressing | Wayland | 2022-09-24 |
Wayland's Weston 11.0 Released With HDR Display & Multi-GPU Preparations | Wayland | 2022-09-22 |
Weston 11.0 Alpha Released With Many Improvements For This Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2022-08-10 |
Xfce's Xfwm4 Sees Wayland Port With Wlroots | Wayland | 2022-07-15 |
LVFS Has Served More Than 52 Million Firmware Files To Linux Users | LVFS | 2022-05-31 |
Wayland 1.21 Alpha Finally Introduces High-Resolution Scroll Wheel Support | Wayland | 2022-05-27 |
RadeonSI Adds EGL Context High Priority Support To Help Wayland Compositors | Radeon | 2022-05-25 |
Intel Preps Some Big Graphics Driver Improvements For Linux 5.19 | Intel | 2022-04-27 |
Wayland's Weston 10.0 Compositor Released With DMA-BUF Feedback, Libseat Support | Wayland | 2022-02-01 |
Microsoft's Director of OS Security Gets Coreboot Playing Nicely With Windows 11 | Microsoft | 2022-01-18 |
GNOME 42 Lands DMA-BUF Feedback Support For Better Multi-GPU, Proper Direct Scanout | GNOME | 2022-01-05 |
Wayland's Weston 10 Alpha Brings Early Color Management Work, More Zero-Copy Scanout | Wayland | 2021-12-14 |
DMA-BUF Feedback Support For Wayland Lands In Mesa 22.0's EGL Code | Mesa | 2021-11-27 |
Compute PBO Download Support Merged For Mesa 22.0, Xnine Comes For Source Engine Games | Mesa | 2021-11-19 |
Experimental Zink On NVIDIA's Vulkan Driver Capable Of Outperforming OpenGL Driver | Mesa | 2021-11-18 |
Copper Aims To Improve Mesa's Zink Efficiency In 2022 | Mesa | 2021-11-17 |
Experimental Mesa Zink Code Managing To Run Wayland's Weston Compositor | Mesa | 2021-11-12 |
Wayland 1.20 Alpha Released With Upstreamed FreeBSD Support, Autotools Nuked | Wayland | 2021-11-05 |
Sway's wlroots Lands Initial Vulkan Renderer | Wayland | 2021-10-28 |
Red Hat Is Hiring So Linux Can Finally Have Good HDR Display Support | Red Hat | 2021-09-17 |
Taiwins 0.3 Released As Newest Wayland Compositor Release | Wayland | 2021-05-04 |
Taiwins Wayland Compositor Switches From WLROOTS To Its Own Library | Wayland | 2021-01-31 |
2020 Was Another Interesting Year For Microsoft Around Open-Source/Linux | Microsoft | 2020-12-28 |
Sony Engineer Talks Up Using Flutter + Wayland For Their Embedded Interfaces | Wayland | 2020-10-28 |
Taiwins 0.2 Released As Modular Wayland Compositor That Supports Lua Scripting | Wayland | 2020-09-18 |
Wayland's Weston 9.0 Released With Kiosk Shell For Always-Fullscreen Apps | Wayland | 2020-09-04 |
NVIDIA Engineer Sends Out Patches For Supporting Sync FDs + Sync Objects With Nouveau | NVIDIA | 2020-09-03 |
Linux 5.10 To Bring Support For Matrox G200 Desktop Graphics Cards | Hardware | 2020-08-26 |
Wayland-Utils 1.0 Relased As New Utility Package For Wayland Tools | Wayland | 2020-08-01 |
Wayland's Weston 9.0 Reaches Alpha | Wayland | 2020-07-31 |
Wayland's Weston Compositor Introduces Kiosk/Fullscreen Shell | Wayland | 2020-07-30 |
Linux Seeing Kernel GPU Driver Support Two Decades Later For Matrox G200 Graphics Cards | Hardware | 2020-07-15 |
Wayland-Info Spun From Weston Code For Offering Wayland Helper Tool | Wayland | 2020-07-10 |
Wayland's Weston 9.0 Aims For Release In Early September | Wayland | 2020-07-02 |
Microsoft Posts Initial DRM Driver For Hyper-V Synthetic Video Device | Microsoft | 2020-06-23 |
Kernel Advancements, Microsoft Linux News Kept Open-Source Fans Entertained In May | Phoronix | 2020-06-02 |
Microsoft Is Writing Its Own Wayland Compositor As Part Of WSL2 GUI Efforts | Microsoft | 2020-05-20 |
TAIWINS Is A Compact Wayland Compositor | Wayland | 2020-05-13 |
Experimental Linux Live OS For Showcasing Wayland Updated With Latest Desktops | Wayland | 2020-05-07 |
Wayland-Protocols 1.19 Released With Governance Guide, Updated XDG-Shell | Wayland | 2020-02-29 |
Wayland 1.18 Released With Meson Support, Other Minor Changes | Wayland | 2020-02-12 |
Weston 8.0 Released With DRM HDCP Support, EGL Partial Updates, Headless OpenGL | Wayland | 2020-01-24 |
Wayland Adds Meson Build System Support | Wayland | 2020-01-14 |
Wayland's Wild Decade From v1.0 Release To Usable GNOME/KDE Desktop Support | Wayland | 2019-12-29 |
Intel Adding DRM-Based Scaling Filter Support For Wayland's Weston For Less Blurry Outputs | Intel | 2019-12-22 |
Wayland's Weston 8.0 Reaches Beta With Direct-Display Extension, Partial Updates, HDCP | Wayland | 2019-12-21 |
Ten Years Past GNOME's 10x10 Goal, The Linux Desktop Is Still Far From Having A 10% Marketshare | GNOME | 2019-12-14 |
Wayland's Weston 8.0 Reaches Alpha With EGL Partial Updates, Headless OpenGL | Wayland | 2019-12-07 |
Wayland's Weston 8.0 Bringing Direct-Display Extension, HDCP On DRM Back-End + More | Wayland | 2019-11-27 |
It Looks Like HDMI FreeSync/VRR For Linux + Wayland Support Will Eventually Come For AMD | AMD | 2019-10-04 |
Wayland's Weston 7.0 Compositor Released With PipeWire Streaming Support | Wayland | 2019-08-23 |
Weston 7.0 Reaches Alpha With PipeWire, HDCP, EGL Partial Updates & Mores | Wayland | 2019-07-20 |
Wayland's Weston Lands A Pipewire Plug-In As New Remote Desktop Streaming Option | Wayland | 2019-07-19 |
Wayland's Weston 7.0 Compositor Aiming To Release Next Month | Wayland | 2019-07-13 |
Wayland's Weston Gets Option To Enable HDCP Support Per-Output | Wayland | 2019-07-12 |
Xfway Aims To Provide A Wayland Compositor Inspired By Xfce's Xfwm4 | Desktop | 2019-06-28 |
Wayland's Weston Now Supports EGL Partial Updates For Better Performance | Wayland | 2019-06-27 |
Wayland's Weston 6.0.1 Released With Build System Fixes & Other Corrections | Wayland | 2019-06-24 |
Intel Graphics Driver Ready For HDR Support In Linux 5.3, Other Last-Minute Features | Intel | 2019-06-20 |
Linux 5.3 To Enable HDR Metadata Support For AMDGPU Driver | Radeon | 2019-06-05 |
More HDR Display Bits On The Way For The Linux 5.3 Kernel | Hardware | 2019-05-26 |
There Are A Ton Of Interesting GSoC Projects This Year: Dav1d GPU Compute, Wayland, Rust | Google | 2019-05-06 |
The PinePhone Linux Smartphone Dev Kit Can Run Wayland's Weston | Hardware | 2019-04-20 |
Wayland's Current Release Manager Is Stepping Down, Following Samsung's Open-Source Drama | Wayland | 2019-04-05 |
High Resolution Scroll Wheel Support Being Worked On For Wayland | Wayland | 2019-04-03 |
Wayland's Weston 6.0 Compositor Released With New Remoting/Streaming Plug-In | Wayland | 2019-03-28 |
SUSE Develops New Driver That Exposes DRM Atop FBDEV Frame-Buffer Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2019-03-26 |
Wayland 1.17 Released With Updated Protocol & Other Improvements | Wayland | 2019-03-21 |
Wayland 1.17 & Weston 6.0 Gear Up To Release Next Week | Wayland | 2019-03-15 |
Wayland 1.17 + Weston 6.0 Reach Beta | Wayland | 2019-03-07 |
Wayland 1.17 & Weston 6.0 Reach Alpha, Officially Releasing Next Month | Wayland | 2019-02-19 |
Wayland's Weston 6.0 To Support XDG-Shell Stable, Helping Apps Like MPV Video Player | Wayland | 2019-02-16 |
Weston Adds Pixman Renderer Config Option | Wayland | 2019-02-02 |
Sway Adds Relative Pointer Support To Its 1.0 Feature List | Wayland | 2019-01-31 |
Intel's Linux Driver Stack Continues Getting Plumbed For FP16 Visuals / Wide Color Gamut | Intel | 2019-01-29 |
Wayland & Weston To See New Releases In Early March | Wayland | 2019-01-27 |
Libinput Working On User-Space Support For High Resolution Scroll Wheels | X.Org | 2019-01-25 |
Wayland's Weston Moving Towards Its Next Release Soon | Wayland | 2019-01-20 |
Intel Developer Working On Adding HDR Display Support To Wayland / Weston | Wayland | 2019-01-10 |
Panfrost Open-Source Mali Driver Now Has A Winsys Working With ARM's Kernel Driver | Mesa | 2019-01-07 |
The X.Org Server Continues Cruising Along As We Approach 2019 | X.Org | 2018-12-28 |
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 |
Wayland's Weston Is In Severe Need Of More Development Help | Wayland | 2018-11-03 |
Wayland's Weston Gets A Remoting Plugin For Virtual Output Streaming | Wayland | 2018-10-30 |
Samsung Open-Source Group Reportedly Shuts Down | Free Software | 2018-10-27 |
Panfrost Open-Source GPU Driver Continues Advancing For Mali GPUs | Mesa | 2018-10-21 |
Following Mir 1.0, Developers Encouraged To Target Wayland Instead Of Mir Client API | Ubuntu | 2018-09-28 |
Wayland's Weston Will Now Respect Your VR HMD | Wayland | 2018-09-24 |
Wayland 1.16 Released, Likely The Last Time-Based Release, Plus Weston 5.0 | Wayland | 2018-08-24 |
Wayland 1.16 / Weston 5.0 RC2 Released To Fix Vulnerabilities | Wayland | 2018-08-18 |
Wayland 1.16 & Weston 5.0 Release Candidates For Testing | Wayland | 2018-08-11 |
Mir's EGMDE Desktop Is Now Available From The Snap Store | Ubuntu | 2018-08-07 |
Wayland 1.16 & Weston 5.0 Hit The Beta Milestone | Wayland | 2018-07-28 |
Wayland 1.16 & Weston 5.0 Reach Alpha | Wayland | 2018-07-13 |
Wayland's Weston Picks Up Force-On, Modifiers, Aspect Ratio Handling | Wayland | 2018-07-07 |
Librem 5 Continues Working On Its Wayland Software Stack, Testing Vibration Motors, Chargers | Hardware | 2018-06-13 |
Wayland's Weston 5.0 Moved Up To An August Release | Wayland | 2018-06-13 |
Weston Might Move To 4 Month Releases While Wayland's Maturity May Stop Timed Cycles | Wayland | 2018-06-03 |
Weston Now Has Its New Touchscreen Calibrator | Wayland | 2018-05-30 |
XWayland Gets Patches For Better EGLStreams Handling | X.Org | 2018-05-24 |
FreeDesktop.org Migrating To GitLab | X.Org | 2018-05-07 |
Wayland's Weston Gets Optimizations For Its Pixman Renderer | Wayland | 2018-04-23 |
Wayland's Weston Begins Switching To Head-Based Output API | Wayland | 2018-04-18 |
Wayland Gets A Meson Build System Port | Wayland | 2018-04-11 |
Wayland 1.15 & Weston 4.0 Officially Released | Wayland | 2018-04-09 |
Wayland 1.15 & Weston 4.0 Release Candidates Published | Wayland | 2018-04-02 |
Some Of The Grandest Open-Source / Linux Letdowns Over The Years | Free Software | 2018-04-01 |
EGMDE: The Example Mir Desktop Environment | Ubuntu | 2018-03-31 |
Wayland's Weston Getting New Touchscreen Calibrator | Wayland | 2018-03-23 |
Wayfire Is A New Wayland Compositor That Supports Desktop Cube, Expo & Other Plugins | Wayland | 2018-03-22 |
Wayland 1.15 Beta Released With Weston 4.0 Beta | Wayland | 2018-03-19 |
Mir Devs Are Still Working On An Example Mir Desktop Session For Ubuntu 18.04 | Ubuntu | 2018-03-14 |
Aspect Ratio Support Within The Linux Kernel's DRM Code Revised | Intel | 2018-03-06 |
Wayland's Weston Gets Patch For High Priority GPU Support | Wayland | 2018-03-01 |
GSoC 2018 Could Bring Better Video Decode, Nouveau Vulkan, Wayland Improvements | X.Org | 2018-02-27 |
Weston 4.0 Alpha Brings Atomic Mode-Setting, New Protocol Support | Wayland | 2018-02-27 |
Wayland 1.15 Alpha Released, Pulls In Libwayland-EGL | Wayland | 2018-02-26 |
Pengutronix Gets Open-Source 3D Working On MX8M/GC7000 Hardware | Mesa | 2018-02-23 |
Mir's Wayland Support Will Now Let You Drag Around Windows | Ubuntu | 2018-02-23 |
Wayland 1.15 & Weston 4.0 Now Planned For Release In April | Wayland | 2018-02-12 |
Atomic Mode-Setting Finally Landing For Wayland's Weston Compositor | Wayland | 2018-02-06 |
KWin Developer's Response To The GNOME CSD Initiative | KDE | 2018-01-27 |
Experimental XDG-Shell Support For Mir's Wayland Support | Ubuntu | 2018-01-15 |
Some Of What's Coming For Wayland's Weston 4.0 Compositor | Wayland | 2018-01-14 |
Wayland 1.15 & Weston 4.0 Planning For Release Next Month | Wayland | 2018-01-11 |
Wayland Made More Inroads In 2017 | Wayland | 2017-12-29 |
FreeBSD Looks At Making Wayland Support Available By Default | BSD | 2017-12-22 |
Intel Posts Experimental Patches For Wayland/Weston/Mesa HDR | Intel | 2017-12-21 |