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wlroots 0.20 Nears Release With New Protocols, Enhanced Vulkan Renderer

([Wayland] 4 Hours Ago wlroots 0.20)


Version 0.20 of the popular wlroots Wayland support library is nearing its official release. Over the past week were two release candidates for wlroots 0.20 were published for this library used by Sway, Wayfire, Cage, Gamescope, and numerous other Wayland compositors.

With wlroots 0.20 there are new Wayland protocol implementations include color-representation-v1, ext-workspace-v1, foreign top-level support for ext-image-capture-source-v1, xdg-toplevel-tag-v1, color-management-v1 minor version 2, cursor-shape-v1 minor version 2, and xdg-shell minor version 7.

The wlroots 0.20 release is also shipping its full Vulkan renderer with back-end and scene-graph support for the color-management-v1 protocol. The Vulkan renderer and scene-graph support is also in place for the color-representation-v1 color range and color encoding.

This upcoming wlroots release also brings API improvements and other enhancements. Downloads and more details on this week's wlroots 0.20 rc1 and rc2 test releases via [1]FreeDesktop.org GitLab .



[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/releases


Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Against Linus Torvalds

SILLYCON VALLEY -- Nearly 130 former system administrators have filed suit
against Linus Torvalds in which they claim Linux cost them their jobs.
Recently several companies migrated from Windows to Linux, increasing
their productivity but decreasing the need for a large staff of tech
workers, prompting a wave of layoffs.

"The good old days when it required five full-time system administrators
to maintain a Microsoft Exchange server are history, all because of that
cancer known as Linux," explained the lead litigant in the lawsuit.

"It all started two years ago when some pimply-faced idiot down in
Accounting decided to smuggle in a Linux box to automate some of his work.
Before long every tech-savvy person in Accounting, Billing, and Sales was
secretly using Linux."

"That's when the troubles started. Productivity soared. Downtime was
limited to an average of three milliseconds per day. Macro viruses ceased
to spread. It was horrible! The entire IT staff was replaced by one
part-time bearded wonder, who was able to administrate the entire Linux
network! Due to the layoffs, I'm now sitting in a homeless shelter with
little hope to find work. Nobody wants to hire an MCSE anymore!"