Fedora used to be the leading, bleeding edge Linux distribution. Then its release cadence slowed down. Today, with its second release of 2016, Fedora 25, Fedora is back to exploring the newest Linux ...

Wayland is a modern display server protocol designed to replace the aging X11 protocol, aiming to provide a faster, more secure, and more efficient Linux desktop experience. It is the language that ...

The next big KDE Plasma release is here with Plasma 6.5 delivering a number of major new features, as the KDE team begin to ...

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Right now, KDE Plasma 6.5 is in beta, but you can kick the tires on the new release by downloading an ISO of KDE Neon (make sure to download the testing version). The full version of 6.5 is scheduled ...

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth wrote a blog post this week contemplating the possibility of making Ubuntu's new Unity shell work on the Wayland display system, with the aim of eventually shipping ...

For the past several releases, the Fedora Project has been pursuing what it calls Fedora Next. Essentially, Fedora Next took a step back and looked at how the distro is used and came up with editions ...

Q: Have there been many challenges moving to Wayland from Mir? WC: Not challenges necessarily. There’s still work to do to get it stable and we’re contributing to that upstream as well. One of the ...