In the early 1980s, MIT computer scientist Bob Scheifler set about laying down the principles for a new windowing system. He had decided to call it X, because it was an improvement on the W graphical ...

The graphics stack in Linux comprises a number of distinct projects, and in this article we'll take a look at the current development of X.org, Wayland, and Cairo. Linux graphics have undergone a ...

What just happened? A Valve graphics engineer may have just delivered one of the smartest quality-of-life upgrades Linux gaming has seen in a while: a fix that stops background apps from stealing ...