For decades, desktop Linux distributions primarily used the X Window System (X11) for rendering displays and graphics, but ...
While Linux has supported X11 for a very long time, developer teams are beginning to make the shift toward Wayland. For example, Kubuntu will only install the Wayland version by default, and KDE ...
Wayland is the Linux display server that has been in the slow, steady process of taking over X11 to deliver a more modern, robust, and secure GUI for Linux. Wayland offers better performance, better ...
Ars looks at the evolution of the Linux graphics stack, from the origins of the X project in the 1980s to the recent Wayland effort.