Elementary OS 8.1 is out with Wayland enabled by default, new apps, animations and eye candy. Based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS ...

Longtime Ubuntu Linux fans may remember Canonical’s announcement back in 2010 that it was planning to adopt the OpenGL-based Wayland display management system instead of the venerable X Window system ...

I don't want to deal with Mir. It seems like a bad idea having such an integral piece of the OS being specific to just one distribution. I don't remember offhand why, and a quick google doesn't tell ...

I didn’t see this coming: Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu backer Canonical, has announced that somewhere down the road, Ubuntu will be switching Ubuntu’s base graphics system from the venerable X ...

Hard on the heels of Canonical’s controversial decision to use the 3D-enabled Unity interface in its desktop Ubuntu operating system came word late last week that it will also adopt a new graphics ...

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 ...

Canonical’s Sebastien Bacher has announced that Ubuntu 21.04 will ship with the Wayland display server as the default, replacing X.Org. Bacher confirmed that NVIDIA users will still default to X.Org ...

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 ...

Canonical's Didier Roche has confirmed that the Wayland display server will be used by default in Ubuntu 17.10. The older Xorg will still be available on all installs if you need to fall back but ...