libinput Preparing To Introduce A Lua-Based Plugin System For Modifying Devices/Events The libinput input handling library that's used by both X11 and Wayland based environments on the Linux desktop is preparing to introduce a Lua-based plug-in system. Via Lua scripts it will be possible to modify evdev input events / input device behavior to deal with quirky/broken input devices and better workaround other problems that aren't currently…

libinput Preparing To Introduce A Lua-Based Plugin System For Modifying Devices/Events - Phoronix

The libinput input handling library that's used by both X11 and Wayland based environments on the Linux desktop is preparing to introduce a Lu...

Fwupd 2.0.10 Brings Support For New Logitech & Lenovo Devices Fwupd 2.0.10 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source firmware updating solution built around the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

Fwupd 2.0.10 Brings Support For New Logitech & Lenovo Devices - Phoronix

Fwupd 2.0.10 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source firmware updating solution built around the Linux Vendor Firmware Servic...

NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Future Driver Plans Last year NVIDIA began publicly outlining known Wayland limitations for their driver and future support plans. This week NVIDIA put out updated information concerning known gaps in Wayland support as well as their ongoing future driver plans for enhancing the feature compatibility under this X11 successor...

NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Future Driver Plans - Phoronix

Last year NVIDIA began publicly outlining known Wayland limitations for their driver and future support plans

GNOME GDM Now Disables The X11/X.Org Session By Default Merged yesterday to the GNOME Display Manager "GDM" codebase is disabling of the X11/X.Org session by default as the first step toward deprecating GNOME's X11 session support...

GNOME GDM Now Disables The X11/X.Org Session By Default - Phoronix

Merged yesterday to the GNOME Display Manager 'GDM' codebase is disabling of the X11/X.Org session by default as the first step toward de...

Wayland Looks To Do Away With Alpha & Beta Releases Ongoing Wayland release manager Simon Ser has proposed doing away with alpha and beta releases moving forward as a sign of Wayland's maturity and to ease the release management process...

Wayland Looks To Do Away With Alpha & Beta Releases - Phoronix

Ongoing Wayland release manager Simon Ser has proposed doing away with alpha and beta releases moving forward as a sign of Wayland's maturity ...

Mesa 25.1.1 Released With Radeon Workarounds For DOOM: The Dark Ages Following the Mesa 25.1 stable release from earlier this month, Mesa 25.1.1 is now available as the first point release bringing an assortment of different OpenGL and Vulkan driver fixes...

Mesa 25.1.1 Released With Radeon Workarounds For DOOM: The Dark Ages - Phoronix

Following the Mesa 25.1 stable release from earlier this month, Mesa 25.1.1 is now available as the first point release bringing an assortment of d...

Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) today signed off on the planned change for Fedora 43 that the GNOME desktop will be Wayland-only: the GNOME X11 packages will be removed in this next Fedora Linux release...

Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME - Phoronix

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) today signed off on the planned change for Fedora 43 that the GNOME desktop will be Wayland-o...

LibreOffice 25.8 Alpha 1 Released With Performance Optimizations The first alpha release of LibreOffice 25.8 is now available for testing of this cross-platform, free software office suite...

LibreOffice 25.8 Alpha 1 Released With Performance Optimizations - Phoronix

The first alpha release of LibreOffice 25.8 is now available for testing of this cross-platform, free software office suite.

VKD3D 1.16 Released With DXIL Shader Support VKD3D 1.16 was released today by Wine/CodeWeavers developers as this upstream Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API implementation used by Wine for running D3D12 Windows games/applications on Linux...

VKD3D 1.16 Released With DXIL Shader Support - Phoronix

VKD3D 1.16 was released today by Wine/CodeWeavers developers as this upstream Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API implementation used by Wine for running D...

More "Nova" Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Code To Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.16 In addition to the Nouveau driver set to see NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support with the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle, the modern, Rust-based Nova driver for future open-source NVIDIA GPU support is set to become a bit more full with this next kernel release...

More "Nova" Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Code To Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.16 - Phoronix

In addition to the Nouveau driver set to see NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support with the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle, the modern, Rust-based Nov...