X.Org Server Lands Big Improvement For Using Zink With GLAMOR A nice improvement was merged today to the X.Org Server for benefiting the GLAMOR 2D acceleration code when using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver...

X.Org Server Lands Big Improvement For Using Zink With GLAMOR - Phoronix

A nice improvement was merged today to the X.Org Server for benefiting the GLAMOR 2D acceleration code when using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver.

Wayback Hopes To Be Ready Next Year With Alpine Linux Planning To Use It By Default A few days ago Wayback was announced as an X11 compatibility layer for X11 desktops environments leveraging a rootful XWayland server. While currently experimental, the hope is that it will be production-ready next year and Alpine Linux is looking at using it by default for its X11 environment...

Wayback Hopes To Be Ready Next Year With Alpine Linux Planning To Use It By Default - Phoronix

A few days ago Wayback was announced as an X11 compatibility layer for X11 desktops environments leveraging a rootful XWayland server

GNOME Papers Document Viewer Approved To Replace Evince In GNOME 49 GNOME Papers has been in development as a modern GTK4-based document viewer. There have been many improvements made to Papers and now ahead of the GNOME 49 release in September, it's been approved to replace Evince as the official document viewer of the GNOME desktop...

GNOME Papers Document Viewer Approved To Replace Evince In GNOME 49 - Phoronix

GNOME Papers has been in development as a modern GTK4-based document viewer

Mesa's Zink Preps NV_timeline_semaphore For Better OpenGL-Vulkan Interoperability Mike Blumenkrantz with Valve's Linux graphics driver team continues working on enhancements to Mesa's Zink driver for OpenGL implemented over the Vulkan API. A new merge request is further enhancing OpenGL and Vulkan interoperability by supporting the GL_NV_timeline_semaphore extension...

Mesa's Zink Preps NV_timeline_semaphore For Better OpenGL-Vulkan Interoperability - Phoronix

Mike Blumenkrantz with Valve's Linux graphics driver team continues working on enhancements to Mesa's Zink driver for OpenGL implemented ...

Mesa 25.2 Should Have Initial Vulkan Support In Good Shape For NVIDIA Blackwell The Mesa 25.2 release that will likely be out as stable in August should have nice initial support for the newest NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, namely used by the GeForce RTX 50 series, with the NVK open-source driver for Vulkan usage...

Mesa 25.2 Should Have Initial Vulkan Support In Good Shape For NVIDIA Blackwell - Phoronix

The Mesa 25.2 release that will likely be out as stable in August should have nice initial support for the newest NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, namely use...

Fedora 44 Will Not Pursue The Idea Of Ending 32-bit x86 Software Packages A proposal raised last week for Fedora 44 was to drop i686 support with ending multi-lib and x86 32-bit packages support. But following a fair amount of opposition to the idea, this matter isn't going to be pursued for next spring's Fedora 44 release...

Fedora 44 Will Not Pursue The Idea Of Ending 32-bit x86 Software Packages - Phoronix

A proposal raised last week for Fedora 44 was to drop i686 support with ending multi-lib and x86 32-bit packages support

Wayback Is An Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer For X11 Desktops Using Wayland Wayback is a new open-source project working on providing an X11 compatibility layer for running full X11 desktop environments using Wayland components with a rootful XWayland server...

Wayback Is An Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer For X11 Desktops Using Wayland - Phoronix

Wayback is a new open-source project working on providing an X11 compatibility layer for running full X11 desktop environments using Wayland compon...

GNOME Shell & Mutter 49 Alpha 1 Released With More Changes Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are the "Alpha 1" releases...

GNOME Shell & Mutter 49 Alpha 1 Released With More Changes - Phoronix

Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are t...

RADV Ray-Tracing Lands Pointer Flags Support For RDNA3 & Newer The RADV Vulkan driver's ray-tracing performance has improved a lot over time such as shown within yesterday's RADV vs. AMDVLK performance comparison on Strix Point. Coincidentally, merged today is yet another ray-tracing optimization to benefit RDNA3 (GFX11) and newer AMD graphics processors...

RADV Ray-Tracing Lands Pointer Flags Support For RDNA3 & Newer - Phoronix

The RADV Vulkan driver's ray-tracing performance has improved a lot over time such as shown within yesterday's RADV vs

KDE Devs Add Wayland Session Management To Qt 6.10, Inertial Scrolling For Qt Quick Apps KDE developers this week have been busy with a mix of polishing the recent Plasma 6.4 release as well as taking on more feature development work for Plasma 6.5 coming later in the year...

KDE Devs Add Wayland Session Management To Qt 6.10, Inertial Scrolling For Qt Quick Apps - Phoronix

KDE developers this week have been busy with a mix of polishing the recent Plasma 6.4 release as well as taking on more feature development work fo...