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 ...

Linux Mint has always been a little stubborn about big changes. While much of the Linux world spent the last few years marching toward Wayland, Mint calmly stayed parked on X11 like someone watching ...

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.