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Kernel Space: Graphics

Vulkan

  • Vulkan in Open-Source

    A discussion of the new Vulkan graphics API and its impact on Open-source software

Wayland

  • Wayland Network Transparency Patches Published

    For the longest time, when bringing up Wayland a recurring question was "what about network transparency?!" Well, Samsung's Derek Foreman has today published the set of Wayland patches for providing Wayland network traparency by pushing the Wayland protocol over TCP/IP.

  • WOW, Wayland Over Wire!

    A common complaint about Wayland is that it isn’t network transparent. X allows you to run an application on one computer and display its output on a different computer as long as the application doesn’t depend on certain “modern” features (such as the shared memory extension). Applications are forwarded individually and are indistinguishable from apps on the local desktop (network performance considerations aside). This is different than remote desktop protocols like VNC or RDP which provide control of an entire operating system.

X.Org

  • X.Org Server 1.18 Gets Its First Point Release, Fixes Multiple XWayland Issues

    Today, Adam Jackson of X.Org Foundation has announced the release and immediate availability for download of the first maintenance build in the X.Org Server 1.18 stable series.

    X.Org Server 1.18.1 represents the work done by the X.Org project's developers in the last three months, and it is here to addresses many of the issues reported by users since the release of X.Org Server 1.18.0 on November 9, 2016 (exactly three months ago). Among the highlights, we can mention several XWayland improvements, lots of Glamor patches, as well as some changes in the Present extension and the modesetting driver.

NVIDIA

  • The GTX 750 Series Still Has Lots Of Problems With Nouveau
  • NVIDIA 361.28 Linux Driver Released, Makes GLVND Optional

    The NVIDIA 361.28 release adds a legacy, non-GLVND libGL.so library to the NVIDIA package. This allows distribution packagers to choose between the GLVND and non-GLVND GLX client libraries at install time. The NVIDIA installer itself is defaulting to the legacy library unless --glvnd-glx-client is passed at install time. This is being done due to behavior differences with the NVIDIA GLX client driver that isn't defined by the Linux OpenGL 1.0 ABI.

  • Fedora 23 & Nvidia - Are we gonna have a good time?

    Well, I have to say I'm pleased with today's task. It went as expected, which is always a good thing. No regressions, no weird stuff. Almost. The FAIL error for one of the easyLife packages is somewhat alarming. If I had not looked at the console output, I might not even have noticed. But I have, and it is ever so slightly worrying me.

    However, the end result is, our old laptop is working fine, with the Nvidia drivers in place and all that, and the CPU utilization is a bit lower than with Nouveau, so there's a small bonus to this escapade, too. More importantly, Fedora 23 did not disappoint, and it is a rare beacon of hope in what is otherwise a dreadful distro season for me. To wit, if any one of you is looking for a fresh experience, a little less Ubuntu a little more something else, Fedora 23 could be the right ingredient. We're done. Oh, we shall discuss Fedora and Nvidia again, if you're wondering, so stay tuned.

More in Tux Machines

digiKam 7.7.0 is released

After three months of active maintenance and another bug triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.7.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See below the list of most important features coming with this release. Read more

Dilution and Misuse of the "Linux" Brand

Samsung, Red Hat to Work on Linux Drivers for Future Tech

The metaverse is expected to uproot system design as we know it, and Samsung is one of many hardware vendors re-imagining data center infrastructure in preparation for a parallel 3D world. Samsung is working on new memory technologies that provide faster bandwidth inside hardware for data to travel between CPUs, storage and other computing resources. The company also announced it was partnering with Red Hat to ensure these technologies have Linux compatibility. Read more

today's howtos

  • How to install go1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04 – NextGenTips

    In this tutorial, we are going to explore how to install go on Ubuntu 22.04 Golang is an open-source programming language that is easy to learn and use. It is built-in concurrency and has a robust standard library. It is reliable, builds fast, and efficient software that scales fast. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel-type systems enable flexible and modular program constructions. Go compiles quickly to machine code and has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. In this guide, we are going to learn how to install golang 1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04. Go 1.19beta1 is not yet released. There is so much work in progress with all the documentation.

  • molecule test: failed to connect to bus in systemd container - openQA bites

    Ansible Molecule is a project to help you test your ansible roles. I’m using molecule for automatically testing the ansible roles of geekoops.

  • How To Install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 9 - idroot

    In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, MongoDB is a high-performance, highly scalable document-oriented NoSQL database. Unlike in SQL databases where data is stored in rows and columns inside tables, in MongoDB, data is structured in JSON-like format inside records which are referred to as documents. The open-source attribute of MongoDB as a database software makes it an ideal candidate for almost any database-related project. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the MongoDB NoSQL database on AlmaLinux 9. You can follow the same instructions for CentOS and Rocky Linux.

  • An introduction (and how-to) to Plugin Loader for the Steam Deck. - Invidious
  • Self-host a Ghost Blog With Traefik

    Ghost is a very popular open-source content management system. Started as an alternative to WordPress and it went on to become an alternative to Substack by focusing on membership and newsletter. The creators of Ghost offer managed Pro hosting but it may not fit everyone's budget. Alternatively, you can self-host it on your own cloud servers. On Linux handbook, we already have a guide on deploying Ghost with Docker in a reverse proxy setup. Instead of Ngnix reverse proxy, you can also use another software called Traefik with Docker. It is a popular open-source cloud-native application proxy, API Gateway, Edge-router, and more. I use Traefik to secure my websites using an SSL certificate obtained from Let's Encrypt. Once deployed, Traefik can automatically manage your certificates and their renewals. In this tutorial, I'll share the necessary steps for deploying a Ghost blog with Docker and Traefik.