X11 Articles & Reviews |
| AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At Parity Between KDE Plasma 6.0 X11 vs. Wayland | Linux Gaming | 2024-04-08 |
| 6-Way Linux Desktop 2D/3D Performance Comparison On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS | Software | 2014-03-12 |
| GNOME Shell Wayland Benchmarks From Fedora 20 | Display Drivers | 2013-12-26 |
| 2D Performance Also Impacted By Unity On XMir | Software | 2013-06-29 |
| X11 Turns 25 Years Old Today | Software | 2012-09-15 |
| KDE Draws Up Plans For Wayland In 2012 | Software | 2011-08-07 |
| Logitech MX1100 Cordless Laser Mouse | Peripherals | 2009-04-10 |
| ATI 8.32.5 Display Driver | Display Drivers | 2006-12-13 |
| ATI 8.27.10 Display Drivers | Display Drivers | 2006-07-28 |
| NVIDIA 1.0-8178 Display Drivers | Display Drivers | 2005-12-22 |
X11 Linux & Open-Source News |
| RadeonSI Squeezes "Many Improvements Around The Whole Driver" Into Mesa 24.1 | Radeon | 2024-04-24 |
| Wine's Wayland Driver Will Finally Set The Window Title | Wayland | 2024-04-24 |
| AMD Posts RDNA3+ Firmware Files For Linux Users | Radeon | 2024-04-21 |
| GNOME Mutter 46.1 Brings Explicit Sync, Better NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Acceleration | GNOME | 2024-04-21 |
| KDE Developers Work Through More Bug Fixes & Features For Plasma 6.1 | KDE | 2024-04-20 |
| MPV 0.38 Media Player Released With New Options & Fixes | Multimedia | 2024-04-17 |
| XWayland 24.1 RC Released With Explicit Sync, Improved Rootful & GLAMOR Optimizations | Wayland | 2024-04-17 |
| ROCm 6.1 Released With Ubuntu 22.04.4 Support, rocDecode For AMD Video Decode | Radeon | 2024-04-16 |
| Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11 | Mesa | 2024-04-16 |
| Intel Vulkan Driver Wires Up Image Compression Control For VKD3D-Proton | Intel | 2024-04-16 |
| XWayland 24.1 Planned For Release Next Month With Explicit Sync & Other Features | Wayland | 2024-04-12 |
| KDE Frameworks 6.1 Released With Many Improvements & Fixes | KDE | 2024-04-12 |
| Explicit GPU Synchronization Merged For XWayland | X.Org | 2024-04-09 |
| KDE Plasma 6 Can Now Sync Your RGB-Backlit Keyboard With Your Desktop's Accent Color | KDE | 2024-04-06 |
| Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Other Linux News From March | Phoronix | 2024-04-01 |
| CachyOS Making Use Of Plymouth For Better Boot Experience, Mitigates For XZ Fiasco | Operating Systems | 2024-04-01 |
| AMD XDNA Linux Driver For Ryzen AI, Zen 5 Compiler Support & Other AMD Q1 Highlights | AMD | 2024-03-31 |
| SDL3 Will Keep Wayland Default At Least For The Time Being | Linux Gaming | 2024-03-27 |
| SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0 | Linux Gaming | 2024-03-26 |
| XWayland-Run 0.0.3 Adds Support For KDE's KWin | Wayland | 2024-03-25 |
| SDL3 Preview Release Aims To Help Test The New SDL 3.0 API | Linux Gaming | 2024-03-24 |
| KDE Sees A Number Of Regression Fixes & Some Crash Fixes This Week | KDE | 2024-03-23 |
| GCC Compiler Adds Support For Device Offloading With AMD RDNA3 APUs (GFX1103) | AMD | 2024-03-22 |
| AOMP 19.0-0 Released For AMD's OpenMP Offloading Compiler | Radeon | 2024-03-22 |
| XWayland Rootful Lands HiDPI / Fractional Scaling Support | Wayland | 2024-03-20 |
| KDE Continuing To Land More Fixes, Eye More Features For Plasma 6.1 | KDE | 2024-03-16 |
| Blumenkrantz Picks His Next Battle: Mesa's DRI Interfaces | Mesa | 2024-03-13 |
| AMD Squeezes In Additional GPU Enablement Code For Linux 6.9 | Radeon | 2024-03-08 |
| RADV Now Supports Experimental VK_EXT_shader_object For RDNA3 GPUs Using NGG | Radeon | 2024-03-06 |
| Mesa 24.1 Lands Support For GFX11.5.1 "RDNA3 Refresh" Variant | Radeon | 2024-03-04 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Proving To Be Unlike The Rocky KDE 4 Launch | KDE | 2024-03-03 |
| CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February | Phoronix | 2024-03-01 |
| Zink Lands Support For Partial Updates / Damage Handling | Mesa | 2024-02-29 |
| KDE MegaRelease 6 Debuts For Plasma 6.0, KF6 & Gear 24.02 | KDE | 2024-02-28 |
| Wine Wayland Driver Patches Enable Basic OpenGL Support | WINE | 2024-02-27 |
| KWinFT Compositor Now Known As Theseus' Ship | KDE | 2024-02-27 |
| GLFW 3.4 Brings Better Support For Wayland & Run-Time Platform Selection | Programming | 2024-02-24 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0 Ready For Release Next Week, Plasma 6.1 Seeing Early Feature Work | KDE | 2024-02-24 |
| New GNOME Mutter Code Prepares Fractional Scaling For XWayland | GNOME | 2024-02-16 |
| RADV Driver Fixes Mesh Shader Support For AMD Phoenix APUs | Radeon | 2024-02-16 |
| Fedora 40 Cleared To Ship AMD ROCm 6, Packages May Reintroduce KDE X11 Support | Fedora | 2024-02-13 |
| AMDGPU LLVM Adding GFX 9/10/11 "Generic Targets" To Build Once & Run On Multiple GPUs | Radeon | 2024-02-12 |
| GNOME Mutter 46 Beta A Win For Gamers & VM Users, Other Last Minute Changes Too | GNOME | 2024-02-11 |
| Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility | Desktop | 2024-02-10 |
| New Features Approved For Fedora 40, Renewed Debate Over Dropping KDE X11 Support | Fedora | 2024-02-01 |
| Godot 4.3 Game Engine To Feature Native Wayland Support | Wayland | 2024-01-31 |
| GCC 14 Lands Working Support For AMD RDNA2 & RDNA3 GPU Offloading | Radeon | 2024-01-29 |
| Budgie 10.9 Desktop Brings Early Wayland Porting Work | Desktop | 2024-01-28 |
| Steam Beta Adds VA-API DRM Video Acceleration For Remote Play | Valve | 2024-01-25 |
| Mesa 24.0-rc3 Up For Testing, Mesa 23.3.4 Out As Stable | Mesa | 2024-01-24 |
| GCC 14 Compiler Might Have AMD RDNA3 GPU Support "Working For Most Purposes" | Radeon | 2024-01-24 |
| Linux Can Now Engage GFXOFF When Running ROCm Compute Apps On RDNA3 GPUs | Radeon | 2024-01-19 |
| Wine 9.0 Released With Initial Wayland Driver, WoW64 Taking Shape & Better Direct3D | WINE | 2024-01-16 |
| System76's COSMIC Desktop Working Toward Its Alpha Release | Desktop | 2024-01-11 |
| XWayland Adds "-Output" Option For Better Rootful Fullscreen Control | Wayland | 2024-01-11 |
| Intel's New "Xe" Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8 Along With Imagination's PowerVR Driver | Linux Kernel | 2024-01-11 |
| GCC 14 Compiler Lands Initial Support For Targeting AMD RDNA3 "GFX11" GPUs | GNU | 2024-01-09 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 Alpha Released | GNOME | 2024-01-07 |
| Google Chrome Adds VA-API Video Acceleration On Wayland | Wayland | 2024-01-06 |
| AMD RDNA3 Refresh Graphics Support May Be In Good Shape With Linux 6.7 | Radeon | 2024-01-04 |
| NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver & Maturing Wayland Support Were Great In 2023 | NVIDIA | 2024-01-02 |
| Mesa 24.0 Receives Further TGSI-To-NIR Conversion Work For AMD RadeonSI | Radeon | 2024-01-02 |
| Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023 | Wayland | 2024-01-01 |
| Intel Meteor Lake, Emerald Rapids & Other Popular Topics For December | Phoronix | 2024-01-01 |
| Alacritty 0.13 Released For This OpenGL-Powered Terminal Emulator | Free Software | 2023-12-31 |
| KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future | KDE | 2023-12-27 |
| Lab Wayland Compositor 0.7 Released - Ported To wlroots 0.17 | Wayland | 2023-12-23 |
| Arcan Display Framework Receives Funding As Innovative Wayland Alternative | Desktop | 2023-12-19 |
| Firefox 121 Now Available With Wayland Enabled By Default | Mozilla | 2023-12-18 |
| Canonical Details Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop Plans + Ongoing X11 Sunsetting Discussions | Ubuntu | 2023-12-15 |
| X.Org Server & XWayland Updated Due To Two Decade-Old Security Vulnerabilities | X.Org | 2023-12-13 |
| KDE's KWin Adds DMA-Fence Deadline Support | KDE | 2023-12-07 |
| AMD Graphics Driver Changes Being Queuing For Linux 6.8 | Radeon | 2023-12-03 |
| Mesa 23.3 Released With Initial NVK Vulkan Driver, AMD RDNA3 Refresh & Raspberry Pi 5 | Mesa | 2023-11-29 |
| Red Hat Developing New xwayland-run & wlheadless-run Utilities | Wayland | 2023-11-29 |
| Coreboot 4.22 Released: Initial AMD OpenSIL Code Added, 17 New Motherboards | Coreboot | 2023-11-28 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Dropping The X.Org Server Except For XWayland | X.Org | 2023-11-28 |
| Mir 2.16 Released With Seamless Boot Integration, Improved X11 Client Support | Ubuntu | 2023-11-28 |
| Wayland's Weston 13.0 Released With Multi-Backend Support & Overlapping Outputs | Wayland | 2023-11-28 |
| Mesh/Task Shader Queries Land For RADV With RDNA2, RDNA3 Support On The Way | Mesa | 2023-11-27 |
| KDE Is Down To Just One Wayland Showstopper Bug Remaining | KDE | 2023-11-25 |
| Mesa 23.3-rc5 Released With The Latest Open-Source GPU Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2023-11-25 |
| AMD Begins Preparing LLVM For RDNA4 With GFX1200/GFX1201 Targets | Radeon | 2023-11-23 |
| AMD Linux Graphics Driver Preparing For Enabling New LSDMA Ring Mode | Radeon | 2023-11-16 |
| Mesa 23.3-rc4 Released With More Fixes | Mesa | 2023-11-16 |
| XWayland Rootful HiDPI Support Under Review | Wayland | 2023-11-13 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland By Default, Initial Support For HDR-Capable Games | KDE | 2023-11-11 |
| Mesa 23.3-rc3 Released As The Stable Version Nears | Mesa | 2023-11-09 |
| AMD Cleaning Up RadeonSI Linux Driver Code Ahead Of Next-Gen GPU Enablement | Radeon | 2023-11-08 |
| Ubuntu's Miriway Maturing As A Mir-Based Wayland Compositor For Other Desktops | Ubuntu | 2023-11-07 |
| KDE Plasma 6 Alpha Approaches Next Week With The Soft Feature Freeze | KDE | 2023-11-04 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0 Approved For Fedora 40 - Including Dropping The X11 Session | Fedora | 2023-11-02 |
| Wayland Progress, Ryzen AI & Linux Benchmarks That Made For An Exciting October | Phoronix | 2023-11-01 |
| Linux 6.7 GPU Drivers: Intel Meteor Lake Stable & AMD Works On Upcoming Hardware | Linux Kernel | 2023-10-31 |
| Some Of The Features You Can Expect With Linux 6.7 | Linux Kernel | 2023-10-28 |
| Blender 4.1 To Support Cycles Renderer On AMD RDNA3 APUs | Radeon | 2023-10-26 |
| Mesa 23.3-rc1 Available For Testing With NVIDIA Vulkan Driver, Raspberry Pi 5 Support | Mesa | 2023-10-25 |
| Mesa 24.0 Enters Feature Development For Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2023-10-25 |
| XWayland's Rootful Mode Is Becoming More Useful | Wayland | 2023-10-24 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Merges Cooperative Matrix Support Using RDNA3 WMMA | Radeon | 2023-10-24 |
| AMD Making It More Clear When Their RadeonSI OpenGL Driver Is Being Used | Radeon | 2023-10-24 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Initial Support For GFX11.5 "RDNA3 Refresh" | Radeon | 2023-10-24 |
| Mesa 23.3 Merges Initial Support For RDNA3 Refresh "GFX11.5" Graphics | Radeon | 2023-10-20 |
| X.Org's GLAMOR Adds Support For OpenGL ES 3.0 Shaders | Mesa | 2023-10-18 |
| Wine 8.18 Released WIth Continued Work On Wayland Window Management | WINE | 2023-10-13 |
| Raspberry Pi OS Now Based On Debian 12 "Bookworm" + Wayland | Raspberry Pi | 2023-10-11 |
| GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support | GNOME | 2023-10-09 |
| Libva 2.20 Released For Video Acceleration API | Multimedia | 2023-10-09 |
| PreSonus Studio One 6.5 Music Production Software Adds Wayland-Only Linux Support | Multimedia | 2023-10-08 |
| KWin Replaces KScreen For Handling Monitor Arrangement Under KDE Plasma Wayland | KDE | 2023-10-07 |
| Glibc Dynamic Loader Hit By A Nasty Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability | GNU | 2023-10-03 |
| X.Org Hit By New Security Vulnerabilities - Two Date Back To 1988 With X11R2 | X.Org | 2023-10-03 |
| Mesa 23.3 Will Enable More Efficient MSAA Anti-Aliasing Use With Radeon RDNA3 GPUs | Mesa | 2023-10-03 |
| Mesa 23.3 Restores DCC With Mipmaps Performance Optimization For AMD RDNA3 GPUs | Valve | 2023-10-01 |
| AMDGPU LLVM Backend Begins Seeing Additions For New RDNA3 Refresh Instructions | Radeon | 2023-09-21 |
| Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support | Fedora | 2023-09-19 |
| KDE On Wayland: "The Biggest Thing Needed Now Is Adoption By 3rd Party Apps" | KDE | 2023-09-18 |
| Fedora 40 Looks To Offer KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, Drop The KDE X11 Session | Fedora | 2023-09-13 |
| Mesa 23.3 Fixes Zink Rendering For X.Org/XWayland GLAMOR | Mesa | 2023-09-10 |
| JetBrains Enabling Wayland Support For IntelliJ-Based IDEs | Wayland | 2023-08-30 |
| libinput 1.24 Brings Changes For Apple Touchpads, Drawing Tablets | Wayland | 2023-08-25 |
| AMD Sends Out Patches Enabling New "DCN 3.5" GPU Display Block | Radeon | 2023-08-23 |
| Wine-Staging 8.14 Released - Less Than 500 Patches Atop Upstream | WINE | 2023-08-21 |
| AMD Sends Out Initial Linux Graphics Driver Patches For "GFX 11.5" | AMD | 2023-08-17 |
| XWayland 23.2 Released With Tearing Control, Resizable Rootful, EI Support | Wayland | 2023-08-16 |
| Devuan 5.0 Released For Debian 12 Without systemd | Debian | 2023-08-15 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter 45 Betas Released | GNOME | 2023-08-08 |
| Window Maker 0.96 Released For Window Manager Inspired By NeXTSTEP UI | Desktop | 2023-08-07 |
| Mozilla Firefox 116 Now Available - Capable Of Wayland-Only Builds | Mozilla | 2023-07-31 |
| AMD Readies "New Stuff" For Linux 6.6 Graphics Driver, AMDGPU DC For RISC-V | Radeon | 2023-07-28 |
| New AMDGPU Firmware Published For Upcoming Radeon GPUs | Radeon | 2023-07-26 |
| Twitter's New "X" Logo Is Reminding Plenty Of People Around X.Org | X.Org | 2023-07-24 |
| Google Chrome Rolling Out Support For Per-Display Scaling Factors | Google | 2023-07-20 |
| XWayland 23.2 RC1 Brings Tearing Control, Resizable Rootful, Emulated Input | X.Org | 2023-07-19 |
| AMD GFX1150 & GFX1151 Targets Being Added To AMDGPU LLVM Backend | Radeon | 2023-07-17 |
| Wine 8.12 Released With Additional Wayland Enablement | WINE | 2023-07-07 |
| Steam Beta Brings Fix For Linux Gamers Running Openbox, NVIDIA Crash Fix | Linux Gaming | 2023-07-06 |
| Mozilla Firefox 116 To Allow For Wayland-Only Builds | Mozilla | 2023-06-26 |
| More Plasma 6 Work Continues, SDDM To Be Incubated By KDE | KDE | 2023-06-24 |
| Two Fedora Spins Eye Going X.Org-less | Fedora | 2023-06-23 |
| SDDM 0.20 Display Manager Released With Experimental Wayland Greeter | Desktop | 2023-06-23 |
| CentOS Stream 10 Starting To Get Underway, More Activity In 2024 | Red Hat | 2023-06-17 |
| NsCDE 2.3 Released For Modern Desktop Looking Like The Old CDE | Desktop | 2023-06-16 |
| KDE Plasma 6 X11 Session "Barely Buggier" Than Plasma 5 On X11 | KDE | 2023-06-10 |
| Mesa 23.1.2 Released With Intel Fix For VKD3D-Proton, More RADV Fixes | Mesa | 2023-06-08 |
| IceWM 3.4 Released With Improved Keybindings Handling | Desktop | 2023-06-05 |
| AMD Graphics Driver In Linux 6.5 Improves Power Management, Adds CP Shadow Buffer | Radeon | 2023-06-03 |
| NVIDIA R535 Linux Beta Brings New Vulkan Extensions, DMA-BUF v4 Wayland Protocol | NVIDIA | 2023-05-30 |
| Wine 8.9 Released With More Wayland Bits, Mono 8.0 Upgrade | WINE | 2023-05-26 |
| Xfce's Wayland Compositor Code Continues Improving | Desktop | 2023-05-14 |
