In the early 1980s, MIT computer scientist Bob Scheifler set about laying down the principles for a new windowing system. He had decided to call it X, because it was an improvement on the W graphical ...

Last October, our last look at graphics focused on the plans laid at September's X Developer's Conference. In the three months since then, these plans have come to fruition, reasserting the continuing ...

AMD's Linux graphics stack had an unusual moment this past week. Anush Elangovan, a corporate VP at AMD, published a small experimental Radeon compute driver written entirely in Python, as reported by ...

Ars looks at the evolution of the Linux graphics stack, from the origins of the X project in the 1980s to the recent Wayland effort.