XWayland 24.1 RC Released With Explicit Sync, Improved Rootful & GLAMOR Optimizations

As expected, the first release candidate of the forthcoming XWayland 24.1 is now available ahead of its planned stable debut in May...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-24.1-RC

Rust-Written LAVD Kernel Scheduler Shows Promising Results For Linux Gaming

Changwoo Min with Igalia presented yesterday at Open-Source Summit North America on optimizing the kernel's scheduler for Linux gaming. Of course, the motivation is around Valve's Steam Deck but for Linux gaming at large to benefit too from this scheduler work to ideally yield less stuttering during gameplay...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LAVD-Scheduler-Linux-Gaming

Wine 9.7 Works On Build System For ARM64X, Other ARM Improvements

Wine 9.7 is out this evening as the latest bi-weekly unstable development release for this open-source software to run Windows programs and games under Linux and other platforms...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.7-Released

Open-Source "Terakan" Vulkan Driver For Radeon HD 6000 Series Shown On Windows

The past year there's been an independent open-source driver developer working on "Terakan" as a Vulkan driver for old Radeon HD 6000 series GPUs. These pre-GCN GPUs never received any official Vulkan driver support from AMD but thanks to open-source and a strong desire to pull off such a feat, Vitaliy Kuzmin "Triang3l" has been pursuing this challenge and ha…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Terakan-HD-6000-VLK-Windows