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Following recent changes at Twitter, the X.Org Foundation is moving to Mastodon. Please follow us at floss.social/@XorgFoundation for the latest in the Linux graphics world and the freedesktop.org
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CFP and ticket sales for FOSSY are open today! We have an incredible line up of tracks curated by our amazing track organizers. Deadline for submission is May 14th you can find more information here: sfconservancy.org/news/2023/… and submit directly here: 2023.fossy.us/call-for-propo…
🚀 KDE Plasma works on the Apple M2 MAX!!! 🚀
After a 14h stream, it works!!! Running WebGL Aquarium, glmark2, and glxgears on the Apple G14C GPU!!
There are still some buffer sizing issues to work out but we're up and running! ✨✨
See you all next stream~!
XDC 2023 Registration and Call For Proposals now open! This year will be in A Coruña, Spain from October 17th to 19th.
More info: lists.freedesktop.org/archiv…
✨✨ The M2 MAX is alive!!!! ✨✨
First frames rendered on the M2 Max with the Python test driver framework!! It took a bit more effort than expected but we got there!!! 🧊
Next Wednesday, let's get this all merged into the Linux Rust driver so we can run apps and games! 🚀🚀
Carlos García has written about the evolution of accelerated compositing in #WebKitGTK, and how we are transitioning towards using DMA-BUF for graphics buffer sharing—simplifying code along the way: blogs.igalia.com/carlosgc/20…
X11R6.4 is now 25 years old. This release introduced Xinerama, DPMS, and Extended Visual Information extensions still used today. Not all of its innovations stood the test of time though - LBX and XRX ("Broadway") were dropped in later X11 releases.
web.archive.org/web/20230227…
The shortest lived feature of the X11R6.4 release was the change by @TheOpenGroup to a non-open-source license which didn't allow use in any product that cost money without paying them. It returned to a traditional MIT-style license later that year: web.archive.org/web/20020811…
#libinput 1.23 is available! This version has a new pointer acceleration profile: the "custom" profile.
This profile allows users to tweak the exact response of their device based on their input speed.
Find more information and download it here: gitlab.freedesktop.org/libin…
Super-interesting blog post by my @igalia colleague Danylo Piliaiev about debugging GPU driver issues, the third one in his personal series. This time he talks about command stream editing. Don't miss it! #OpenSource#Mesa3Dblogs.igalia.com/dpiliaiev/d…