Niri Debuts As A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Inspired By PaperWM

The newest Wayland compositor on the scene with its first stable release is Niri, a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor inspired by the PaperWM GNOME Shell extesnsion...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Niri-0.1-Wayland-Compositor

Budgie 10.9 Desktop Brings Early Wayland Porting Work

With a goal of delivering a Wayland-only Budgie 10 desktop release later in 2024, Budgie 10.9 debuted today with the early-stage porting work to Wayland...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.9-Released

The Current State & Future Of GTK's New Unified Renderers

GTK recently merged their new "unified" rendering code with a focus on Vulkan API support and where Linux distributions are now encouraged to build with the Vulkan renderer. Prominent GTK developer Mathias Clasen at Red Hat has written more over the weekend about the state and future of the new Vulkan and NGL renderers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-State-Of-New-Renderers

ChipStar 1.1 Released For Compiling & Running HIP/CUDA On SPIR-V

ChipStar 1.1 was released this past week as one of the open-source projects to help in porting HIP and CUDA applications to support the industry-standard SPIR-V. ChipStar acts to get HIP/CUDA codes working on SPIR-V with OpenCL or Intel's oneAPI Level Zero...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ChipStar-1.1-HIP-CUDA-SPIR-V

GNOME Project Handbook Launches To Help New Contributors

The GNOME project has announced the GNOME Project Handbook as a new resource for helping new developers/contributors get involved with this open-source desktop environment...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Project-Handbook