Canonical to Make GNOME Default Session in Ubuntu 17.10, Likely Use Wayland

Canonical to Make GNOME Default Session in Ubuntu 17.10, Likely Use Wayland

Work will start with as little patches as possible

  • Linux
  • By Marius Nestor
  • April 11th, 2017
UBports to Provide Legacy Support for BQ Ubuntu Phones, Create Their Own Store

UBports to Provide Legacy Support for BQ Ubuntu Phones, Create Their Own Store

They will eventually update Ubuntu Touch to Ubuntu 16.04

  • Linux
  • By Marius Nestor
  • April 7th, 2017
Red Hat and Fedora Teams Welcome Ubuntu to GNOME and Wayland with Open Arms

Red Hat and Fedora Teams Welcome Ubuntu to GNOME and Wayland with Open Arms

They hope to have a fruitful collaboration with Canonical

Enlightenment 0.21.7 Desktop Environment Adds 45 Bug Fixes, Wayland Improvements

Enlightenment 0.21.7 Desktop Environment Adds 45 Bug Fixes, Wayland Improvements

Another bugfix and stability release for Enlightenment 21

  • Linux
  • By Marius Nestor
  • March 6th, 2017
Collabora's Focus on Advancing the Performance of Open Source Graphics in Linux

Collabora's Focus on Advancing the Performance of Open Source Graphics in Linux

They brought numerous performance improvements for graphics

Nautilus 3.24 to Bring Desktop Support for Wayland Sessions, Easy Root Browsing

Nautilus 3.24 to Bring Desktop Support for Wayland Sessions, Easy Root Browsing

Will be available as part of the GNOME 3.24 desktop

GTK+ Implements Window Focus Tracking and Window Properties for Ubuntu's Mir

GTK+ Implements Window Focus Tracking and Window Properties for Ubuntu's Mir

GTK+ 3.22.8 & 3.89.4 releases are now available for download

KDE Neon Invites Users to Test Drive the Latest Wayland ISO with KDE Plasma 5.9

KDE Neon Invites Users to Test Drive the Latest Wayland ISO with KDE Plasma 5.9

Now available on the KDE Neon Developer Unstable Edition

KDE Frameworks 5 and KDE Plasma 5 Desktop Landed on FreeBSD, Wayland Coming Soon

KDE Frameworks 5 and KDE Plasma 5 Desktop Landed on FreeBSD, Wayland Coming Soon

A Wayland port is in the works at the moment

KDE Partition Manager 3.0.0 Supports LVM on LUKS and LUKS on LVM Configurations

KDE Partition Manager 3.0.0 Supports LVM on LUKS and LUKS on LVM Configurations

Wayland support has been improved in this version

GTK+ 3.22.5 GUI Toolkit Released for GNOME 3.22 Desktops with 20 Improvements

GTK+ 3.22.5 GUI Toolkit Released for GNOME 3.22 Desktops with 20 Improvements

It's coming soon to a GNU/Linux distro near you

Nautilus 3.22.2 File Manager Makes Desktop Icons Work on Wayland Sessions

Nautilus 3.22.2 File Manager Makes Desktop Icons Work on Wayland Sessions

It's now available for users of the GNOME 3.22.2 desktop

Intel GPU Tools 1.17 Released for Linux with Kaby Lake Support, Many New Tests

Intel GPU Tools 1.17 Released for Linux with Kaby Lake Support, Many New Tests

Includes linked list helpers from Wayland

Enlightenment 0.21.4 Desktop Release Adds 106 Changes, Improves Wayland Support

Enlightenment 0.21.4 Desktop Release Adds 106 Changes, Improves Wayland Support

Bryce support was improved as well in this point release

Work Underway for GTK+ 4 Toolkit, Graphic Tablet Support Was Improved on Windows

Work Underway for GTK+ 4 Toolkit, Graphic Tablet Support Was Improved on Windows

A couple of Wayland-related bugs have been resolved

Shotwell 0.25.1 Linux Image Viewer Released with Tumblr and Piwigo Improvements

Shotwell 0.25.1 Linux Image Viewer Released with Tumblr and Piwigo Improvements

It also addresses many issues from previous releases

Fedora 25 Officially Released as the First Major OS to Offer Wayland by Default

Fedora 25 Officially Released as the First Major OS to Offer Wayland by Default

It's powered by the latest GNU/Linux technologies

 
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