Mir 2.26 Begins Working On Rust-Based Input Platform
…Mir 2.26 also brings working support for the ext_image_copy_capture_v1 protocol and draft input-trigger protocols support. The Mir 2.26 release announcement can be read on the…
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Open-Source Radeon Driver For R300 Through R500 GPUs Sees Big Code Cleanup In 2026
…Even the Radeon X1000 series is nearly 21 years old as the "newest" of the GPUs supported by this open-source 3D driver. This new code restructuring and development work is coming…
Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code
…Sway 1.12 Released With HDR Support On Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua-Based Configuration, User-Defined Layouts Wayland Developers Target June For Weston 16 Release WayVNC…
Godot 4.7 Will Finally Have HDR Output, Including On Linux With Wayland
…Now that Linux has good HDR support when using Wayland, the Godot HDR support is nicely aligned there. Godot developers are still working on HDR support for Android with a later update…
Labwc 0.20 Wayland Compositor Released With Numerous New Features
…Sway 1.12 Released With HDR Support On Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua-Based Configuration, User-Defined Layouts Wayland Developers Target June For Weston 16 Release WayVNC…
Valve Updates GameNetworkingSockets After Nearly Four Year Hiatus
…That Rust binding support for GameNetworkingSockets comes via the open-source community rather than Valve developers. The new version also has peer-to-peer (P2P) improvements, improved CMake integration, various compiler and…
HarfBuzz Continues Improving Its New GPU-Accelerated Text Shaping Library
…options for demonstrating the HarfBuzz GPU support, and more. The HarfBuzz vector library meanwhile gained a new PDF output back-end and other improvements. HarfBuzz developers are anticipating these experimental libraries will…
Today Marks 22 Years Of Phoronix For Linux Hardware Testing & Benchmarking
…and creations like OpenBMC, LVFS/Fwupd driving firmware updating under Linux, AMD developing openSIL and coming back to Coreboot support, and so many other great achievements these days. The open-source driver…
Linux To Drop ARCnet Support For Old ISA & PCMCIA Hardware
…For those still using ARCnet for that pre-Ethernet networking technology from decades ago, Linux kernel developers plan to end support for ARCnet with ISA and PCMCIA adapters. Linux developers acknowledge ARCnet…
Wine 11.8 Improves VBScript Compatibility, Finally Fixes Microsoft Golf 1999
…22 Comments Wine 11.8 delivers the latest and greatest support for running Windows applications and games under Linux and other platforms. This newest bi-weekly development release brings several more enhancements…