Wayland is no longer experimental. These five Linux distros already ship with Wayland as the default instead of X11.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Newer kernel, newer Cinnamon, new tools, and even new icons The timing is right if you're looking to try out Mint. New ...

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 ...

A new hardware enablement (HWE) will roll out to users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS this month, ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS point ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I first saw that Canonical, Ubuntu‘s parent company, was dumping the X Window System, which is the networking windowing system that’s the foundation of almost all Unix and Linux graphical desktop ...