GNOME 49 Alpha has been released, with new applications replacing older ones and changes to the display server protocol that X11 fans may not be happy about. GNOME 49 has reached its first Alpha stage ...
KDE Plasma will remove X11 support in Plasma 6.8 — transition expected in early 2027. Most Plasma users already use Wayland, so dropping X11 will affect few. If you need X11, use LTS distros or ...
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 ...
The development of GNOME release 49 is entering the home straight. The team has released the first alpha snapshot GNOME Mother 49.alpha.0 three weeks ahead of schedule. It can handle Wayland's xdg top ...
Wayland is no longer a future-facing experiment. For a growing number of Linux distributions, it is simply the default desktop experience today. Some distros made the switch quietly, while others ...
The company is making a play to lure Unix and Linux users to its Mac OS X operating system. Will a windowing environment do the trick? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...
When installing Oracle on Linux, and not using the silent install file, you need to be able to launch X11 sessions from the server to an X11 client (your desktop).<BR><BR>Typically the Linux server is ...