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Niri Debuts As A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Inspired By PaperWM

Phoronix - Sun, 01/28/2024 - 04:27
The newest Wayland compositor on the scene with its first stable release is Niri, a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor inspired by the PaperWM GNOME Shell extesnsion...

Arch-Based Endeavour OS Updates ISO With Linux 6.7 Kernel, Mesa 23.3.3

Phoronix - Sat, 01/27/2024 - 21:56
Endeavour OS as the popular desktop rolling-release Linux distribution built upon Arch Linux has published updated ISOs that bundle in the stable Linux 6.7 kernel as well as other package updates...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Will Aim To Ship With The Linux 6.8 Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 01/27/2024 - 19:51
As some terrific news, Canonical laid out their kernel plans for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and they are being ambitious with plans to ship the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel as their default kernel on this next long-term support Ubuntu desktop/server distribution...

The Budgie Desktop Hopes To Do A Wayland-Only Release This Year

Phoronix - Sat, 01/27/2024 - 19:41
The Budgie desktop that started off as the desktop project within the Solus Linux space has written a lengthy blog post outlining their highlights for 2023 as well as providing a glimpse ahead for 2024. The Budgie desktop is working eagerly on Wayland and XWayland support and hope to advance enough this year to deliver a Wayland-only release...

Mesa's NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 01/27/2024 - 19:30
The NVK driver within Mesa for open-source NVIDIA GPU support for the Vulkan API that works with the Nouveau DRM kernel driver is now capable of advertising Vulkan 1.3 API support...

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