X11 Articles & Reviews |
| Oracle OCI Compute E6 Benchmarks For Leading AMD EPYC Turin Performance In The Cloud | Cloud | 2025-10-22 |
| GNOME & KDE Plasma Wayland Sessions Outperforming Xfce + LXQt On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming | Linux Gaming | 2025-04-02 |
| GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivering Great Wayland Desktop Experience On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming | Linux Gaming | 2025-03-28 |
| 100+ Linux Benchmarks Of Intel Arrow Lake With New BIOS / 0x114 CPU Microcode | Software | 2024-12-22 |
| 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 |
| SteamOS 3.8.10 Stable Released With Updated Arch, Steam Machine Support & Wayland Desktop Default | Valve | 2026-06-18 |
| AMD's Lemonade AI Server Now Much More Useful With MCP Server Integration | AMD | 2026-06-17 |
| Wine 11.11 Released With Wayland Improvements | WINE | 2026-06-12 |
| Wine Wayland Driver Lands Alpha Modifier Support For Opacity Handling | Wayland | 2026-06-12 |
| Mesa 26.2 Preps For AMD GFX1156 For New, Post-Strix-Halo RDNA 3.5 Graphics | Radeon | 2026-06-11 |
| YSERVER: Modern X11 Server Written In Rust With The Help Of Claude Code | X.Org | 2026-06-11 |
| RADV Driver Now Leveraging RDNA3+ Hardware Feature For Better Instruction Cache Prefetching | Radeon | 2026-06-10 |
| Xfce Ported To Rust-Written Redox OS For Better X11 Experience | Operating Systems | 2026-06-08 |
| Mesa 26.2 Lands VK_GOOGLE_display_timing Support For Direct Display Mode | Mesa | 2026-06-07 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland | KDE | 2026-06-02 |
| NVIDIA 610.43.02 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements, DRM Color Pipeline API | NVIDIA | 2026-05-26 |
| AMD ROCm 7.13 Released With Instinct MI350P Support, More Ryzen AI APUs | AMD | 2026-05-15 |
| Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 Improves Handling Of Desktop Apps, Other Fixes | Ubuntu | 2026-05-09 |
| AMD Expands ROCm Support On Windows WSL To More Ryzen Hardware | AMD | 2026-05-06 |
| Linux 7.1-rc2 Bringing Some More Improvements/Fixes For Older AMD GPUs | Linux Kernel | 2026-05-02 |
| XWayland 24.1.11 Brings Crash Fixes | Wayland | 2026-04-27 |
| LXQt 2.4 Released With More Wayland Fixes/Improvements | Desktop | 2026-04-20 |
| Valve Developer Lands RADV/ACO Changes For AMD's GFX11.7 / RDNA 4m | Radeon | 2026-04-17 |
| X.Org Server 21.1.22 Released Due To Five New Security Vulnerabilities | X.Org | 2026-04-14 |
| KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years | KDE | 2026-04-14 |
| GNOME-Aligned Amberol 2026.1 Music Player Released, Phosh Improves X11 Support | GNOME | 2026-04-11 |
| Support For AMD GFX11.7 "RDNA 4m" Pending For RADV & RadeonSI Drivers | AMD | 2026-04-10 |
| Intel Panther Lake & Linux AI/LLM Debates Dominated Q1 For Linux Users | Phoronix | 2026-03-31 |
| Intel Xe Driver Improves Memory Pressure / Out-Of-Memory Behavior For vRAM With Linux 7.1 | Intel | 2026-03-27 |
| Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands New Feature To Boost DX12 Game Performance | Intel | 2026-03-24 |
| NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux Driver Debuts As Stable R595 Build | NVIDIA | 2026-03-24 |
| Additional AMD RDNA 4m GPU Targets Coming: GFX1171 & GFX1172 | Radeon | 2026-03-24 |
| Electron's Investment Into Good Wayland Support | Wayland | 2026-03-22 |
| SteamOS 3.8 Preview Preps For Steam Machine, KDE Plasma Desktop With Wayland By Default | Valve | 2026-03-20 |
| FreeRDP 3.24 Released With Security Fixes & Improved X11 Client Support | Desktop | 2026-03-13 |
| CachyOS Handheld Edition Switches To Wayland, CachyOS Installer Drops Bcachefs | Arch Linux | 2026-03-08 |
| Lutris 0.5.21 Adds Support For Running Games Inside Valve's Latest Steam Runtime | Linux Gaming | 2026-02-24 |
| KDE Plasma 6.6.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes | KDE | 2026-02-24 |
| More ISA Differences Come To Light With The New AMD GFX1170 "RDNA 4m" | Radeon | 2026-02-18 |
| Linux 7.0 Graphics Drivers See New AMD Hardware, Intel Xe SR-IOV + Multi-Device SVM | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-11 |
| Linux Mint Developing New Wayland-Compatible Screensaver | Operating Systems | 2026-02-11 |
| Initial AMD Zen 6 "znver6" Support Merged For LLVM/Clang | AMD | 2026-02-07 |
| AMD Introduces New GPU Target To AMDGPU LLVM: GFX1170 "RDNA 4m" | Radeon | 2026-02-06 |
| Linux Kernel AI Chatter, ReactOS Developments & AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Topped January | Phoronix | 2026-02-01 |
| SonicDE Looks To Preserve & Improve The X11-Specific KDE Code | KDE | 2026-01-28 |
| Xfwl4 Being Developed As New Wayland Compositor For Xfce | Desktop | 2026-01-27 |
| Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing Merged To Mesa 26.1 For X11 & Wayland | Vulkan | 2026-01-27 |
| New Intel Linux Code For DG2 Graphics Can Improve Performance As Much As "A Whopping 260%" | Intel | 2026-01-27 |
| Several New X.Org Libraries See 2026 Releases | X.Org | 2026-01-25 |
| CachyOS Starts 2026 By Switching To Plasma Login Manager & Live ISO Using Wayland | Operating Systems | 2026-01-24 |
| PyTorch 2.10 Released With More Improvements For AMD ROCm & Intel GPUs | AI | 2026-01-21 |
| System76 Continues Driving More Improvements Into The COSMIC Desktop | Desktop | 2026-01-20 |
| GNOME 50 Alpha Released With The X11 Code Gutted | GNOME | 2026-01-15 |
| Another RADV Ray-Tracing Merge Lands Some Additional Gains For Mesa 26.0 | Radeon | 2026-01-14 |
| GNOME Mutter 50 Alpha Released With X11 Backend Removed | GNOME | 2026-01-14 |
| XWayland RandR Improvements Merged For Kicking Off 2026 X.Org Server Activity | Wayland | 2026-01-14 |
| Wine 11.0 Planned For Release Tomorrow With NTSync Support, Better WoW64 | WINE | 2026-01-12 |
| Budgie 11 Desktop Being Developed With The Qt6 Toolkit | Desktop | 2026-01-12 |
| Latest Linux 6.19 Code Fixes Rust Binder Driver, Adds Intel Nova Lake Point S To MEI | Linux Kernel | 2026-01-11 |
| Budgie 10.10 Released: Officially Migrated From X11 To Wayland | Desktop | 2026-01-10 |
| Debian 13.3 Released With Many Security & Bug Fixes | Debian | 2026-01-10 |
| KDE Plasma 6.6 Adds oo7 Secret Service Provider Support, Save As New Global Theme | KDE | 2026-01-10 |
| GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire" | GNOME | 2026-01-05 |
| AMD RDNA4 With RADV Now Support New Performance Counters For Better Profiling | Radeon | 2026-01-05 |
| Manjaro Linux 26.0 Rolling Out - Xfce Edition Recommended If Wanting To Use X11 | Arch Linux | 2026-01-04 |
| TrixiePup64 2601 Released For Debian 13 Powered Puppy Linux In Wayland & X11 Flavors | Operating Systems | 2026-01-04 |
| Valve's Linux Efforts, Kernel Improvements & KDE Plasma Wayland Advancements Topped 2025 | Phoronix | 2026-01-01 |
| IceWM 4.0 Improves Alt-Tab Window Switcher, Alpha Blending + 32-bit RGBA Default | Desktop | 2026-01-01 |
| SDL 3.4 Released With Many New APIs, Better Emscripten & Native PNG Support | Linux Gaming | 2026-01-01 |
| X.Org IMAKE Updated For Those Not Yet Transitioned To Autoconf/Automake Or Meson | X.Org | 2025-12-30 |
| XWayland Gets Patched For Incorrect Pointer Coordinates | X.Org | 2025-12-30 |
| The Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Enjoyed A Rather Remarkable 2025 | Mesa | 2025-12-30 |
| KDE Plasma's Wayland Transition "Nears Completion" In Ending Out 2025 | KDE | 2025-12-28 |
| Fedora Continued At The Forefront Of Upstream Linux Innovations In 2025 | Fedora | 2025-12-28 |
| Ubuntu's Rust Infatuation, New Optimizations & Other Ubuntu Linux 2025 Highlights | Ubuntu | 2025-12-26 |
| Phoenix: A New X Server Written From Scratch With Zig | X.Org | 2025-12-25 |
| Wayback 0.3 Released For Advancing This X11 Compatibility Layer | Wayland | 2025-12-24 |
| RADV Adds Support For New Performance Counters To Help Game Developers | Radeon | 2025-12-22 |
| Elementary OS 8.1 Switches Over To Wayland Session By Default | Operating Systems | 2025-12-22 |
| Darktable 5.4 RAW Photography Software Reaches Parity Between X11 & Wayland | Free Software | 2025-12-21 |
| Xorgproto 2025.1 Released To Recognize Newer Keyboard Keys | X.Org | 2025-12-19 |
| TrixiePup64 11.2 Released For Debian-Based Puppy Linux With Wayland & X11 Options | Operating Systems | 2025-12-13 |
| Mesa's "Present Timing" Vulkan Driver Support Now Feature Complete | Mesa | 2025-12-11 |
| Budgie 10.10 Desktop Approved For Fedora 44 Packaging, Fedora Budgie Spin All-Wayland | Fedora | 2025-12-10 |
| Flowblade Video Editor May Go Wayland-Only As Part Of GTK4 Port | Multimedia | 2025-12-06 |
| Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Initial Wayland Port | Operating Systems | 2025-12-04 |
| New Rockchip RKCIF & RKVDEC HEVC Media Drivers For Linux 6.19 | Multimedia | 2025-12-01 |
| Steam Machine, Continued Open-Source Rust Usage & Linux Kernel Happenings In November | Phoronix | 2025-12-01 |
| NixOS 25.11 Released With 7,002 New Packages Added | Operating Systems | 2025-11-30 |
| KDE Plasma 6.6's KWin Implements RandR Emulation For Better XWayland Experience | KDE | 2025-11-29 |
| AMD ROCm 7.1.1 Released With RHEL 10.1 Support, More Models Working On RDNA4 | AMD | 2025-11-26 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive In Dropping X11 Session Support | KDE | 2025-11-26 |
| NVIDIA 580.94.11 Linux Driver Brings HDR Metadata Support | NVIDIA | 2025-11-21 |
| Wayland-Only Budgie 10.10 Desktop Preview Released | Desktop | 2025-11-17 |
| NVIDIA Highlights The Shortcomings With Wayland Screencasting | NVIDIA | 2025-11-16 |
| Linux Proposal Aims To Overcome Kernel Limitation Affecting Various Gaming Peripherals | Hardware | 2025-11-11 |
| GTK Adds "Reduced Motion" Accessibility Option To Follow macOS, Windows & Others | GNOME | 2025-11-07 |
| GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend" | GNOME | 2025-11-05 |
| LXQt 2.3 Released With Improved Wayland Support | Desktop | 2025-11-05 |
| Three More X.Org Server & XWayland Security Vulnerabilities Made Public | X.Org | 2025-10-28 |
| Wine-Staging 10.17 Lands Fix For 11 Year Old Bug Report Affecting Various Games | WINE | 2025-10-18 |
| Wine 10.17 Now Defaults To EGL Renderer For OpenGL On X11 | WINE | 2025-10-17 |
| AMD ROCm 7.0.2 Released With Radeon RX 9060 Officially Supported | Radeon | 2025-10-10 |
| KDE Plasma 6.5 Preps Yet More Wayland Fixes & Improvements | KDE | 2025-09-20 |
| AMD "GFX1251" Target Added To LLVM As Latest RDNA 4.5 APU | AMD | 2025-09-17 |
| Mesa Drops VDPAU Video Acceleration In Favor Of VA-API | Mesa | 2025-09-10 |
| GNOME 49 Release Candidate Ships With GDM Re-Enabling X11 Support By Default | GNOME | 2025-09-03 |
| Niri 25.08 Wayland Compositor Introduces xwayland-satellite Support | Wayland | 2025-09-03 |
| SDL Merges X11TK: A Basic X11 Toolkit | Linux Gaming | 2025-09-02 |
| IceWM 3.9 Released With Few Enhancements To This Speedy X11 Window Manager | Desktop | 2025-08-31 |
| Mesa 25.1.9 Released To End Out The Mesa 25.1 Series | Mesa | 2025-08-27 |
| Mesa 25.2.1 Released: Restores NVK On Kepler, Additional Intel Battlemage ID | Mesa | 2025-08-20 |
| AMD "GFX1250" To Double The Number Of User SGPRs | AMD | 2025-08-18 |
| NVIDIA 580.76.05 Linux Driver Updates EGL Bits, Adds New MetaMode Attribute | NVIDIA | 2025-08-12 |
| GNU/Hurd Now An Official Platform For SDL Cross-Platform Gaming Library | Linux Gaming | 2025-08-09 |
| Mesa 25.2 Released With Many Improvements For RADV, Intel & NVK Drivers | Mesa | 2025-08-06 |
| SDL Library Lands Precision Scrolling For X.Org Usage | Linux Gaming | 2025-08-05 |
| GNOME Mutter 49 Beta Released With Pointer Warp Protocol, Wayland Fixes | GNOME | 2025-08-03 |
| Wayback 0.2 Brings More Enhancements For This X11 Compatibility Layer | Wayland | 2025-08-01 |
| Framework 12, Clear Linux Going EOL, AMD EPYC Performance & Other Excitement In July | Phoronix | 2025-08-01 |
| Wayback 0.1 Released As First Preview Release For X11 Compatibility Layer | X.Org | 2025-07-23 |
| Mesa 25.2-rc2 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake Enablement, Legacy-X11 Option Deprecated | Mesa | 2025-07-23 |
| AMDGPU LLVM Backend Flips On "True16" Mode For All RDNA3 GPUs | Radeon | 2025-07-22 |
| Mesa 25.1.6 Released With Intel Xe3 Panther Lake Graphics Enabled By Default | Mesa | 2025-07-16 |
| Mesa 25.2-rc1 Released: Faster RADV Ray-Tracing, NVK Blackwell & More Optimizations | Mesa | 2025-07-16 |
| More AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 Improvements Land For Open-Source Driver | Mesa | 2025-07-16 |
| Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV | Radeon | 2025-07-15 |
| Blender 4.5 LTS Released With Vulkan & Wayland Improvements, Some Optimizations | Free Software | 2025-07-15 |
| CachyOS July 2025 Ships With Mesa Patched For Anti-Lag, Plasma Defaulting To Wayland | Operating Systems | 2025-07-13 |
| Wine-Staging 10.12 Release Brings Patch For 11 Year Old Bug | WINE | 2025-07-12 |
| Wine 10.12 Released With Experimental EGL Backend For The X11 Driver | WINE | 2025-07-11 |
| Blender 4.5 RC1 Released With Much Better Vulkan Support | Free Software | 2025-07-10 |
| Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org | Wayland | 2025-07-09 |
| Mesa 25.2 Drops Legacy DRI2 Code With A Bonfire To Pre-DMABUF Winsys Support | Mesa | 2025-07-09 |
| AMD Merges New RDNA 3.5 iGPU Firmware Files Ahead Of Next Product Launch | Radeon | 2025-07-08 |
| GNOME 49 Alpha Released With X11 Support Disabled By Default, Many New Features | GNOME | 2025-07-07 |
| SUSE's Agama Installer Switches From X.Org To Wayland For Installation GUI | SUSE | 2025-07-05 |
| X.Org Server Lands Big Improvement For Using Zink With GLAMOR | X.Org | 2025-07-03 |
| Wayback Hopes To Be Ready Next Year With Alpine Linux Planning To Use It By Default | Wayland | 2025-07-02 |
| NVIDIA Confirms 580 Linux Driver Is The Last For Maxwell / Pascal / Volta | NVIDIA | 2025-07-01 |
| Framework 12, AMD Strix Halo & Linux Kernel Improvements Were Most Popular In June | Phoronix | 2025-07-01 |
| KDE Improving Its Clock With Wayland Picture-In-Picture Protocol | KDE | 2025-06-30 |
| Wayback Is An Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer For X11 Desktops Using Wayland | Wayland | 2025-06-29 |
| AMD Strix Halo, Snapdragon X & Linux Graphics Were Most Popular This Quarter | Phoronix | 2025-06-29 |
| Linux 6.16 Extends Cleaner Shader Support To More AMD CDNA/GFX9 GPUs | Radeon | 2025-06-28 |
| RADV Ray-Tracing Lands Pointer Flags Support For RDNA3 & Newer | Mesa | 2025-06-28 |
| Blender 5.0 Introducing HDR Support On Linux With Vulkan + Wayland | Free Software | 2025-06-26 |
| Proposal To Ship XLibre As X11 Server Packages On Fedora Linux Is Withdrawn | Fedora | 2025-06-25 |
| Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork | Fedora | 2025-06-24 |
| AMD GFX1250 Support Starts Being Built Up Within LLVM | Radeon | 2025-06-23 |
| IceWM 3.8 Brings New Optimizations & Changes | Desktop | 2025-06-23 |
| KDE Plasma Remains Committed To A Wayland Future: 70%+ Already On Wayland | KDE | 2025-06-21 |
| XLibre 25.0 Released As Inaugural Version Of X.Org Server Fork | X.Org | 2025-06-21 |
| Godot 4.5 Beta Released With Better Wayland Support | Linux Gaming | 2025-06-18 |
| X.Org Server 21.1.17 & XWayland 24.1.7 Fix The Latest Batch Of Security Issues | X.Org | 2025-06-17 |
