They no longer want to be constrained by the edges of windows. So, they created a“scrollable” tiling desktop. niri —— A tiling window compositor built from scratch for Wayland, is redefining the window management logic of Linux. Tiling desktops are efficient, but also too “rigid” Linux users love tiling window managers. Because they areextremely fast, … Read more
📚 Open Source Technology DailyExploring the Infinite Possibilities of the Open Source World2025/11/17✨ Qt Abandons Direct Use of RDRAND/RDSEED to Improve Performance and Reduce ErrorsThe Qt toolkit is gradually phasing out direct reliance on the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions from the CPU for random number generation, opting instead for entropy sources provided by the operating … Read more
Wayland and X11 (also known as the X Window System) are two different display server protocols used to manage graphical interfaces in Linux and Unix-like operating systems. Their main differences lie in design philosophy, architecture, and performance. Here are the key distinctions:1. Design Philosophy and ArchitectureX11: Historical Background:X11 has been the standard display server protocol … Read more
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 has officially entered the public testing phase. This new version, codenamed Gigi, is based on Debian 13 “Trixie” and utilizes the long-term support Linux 6.12 LTS kernel, featuring the latest Cinnamon 6.4.12 desktop environment. LMDE 7 inherits all the improvements and new features from Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara”, such … Read more
To match the latest Raspberry Pi 5 hardware, the Raspberry Pi OS is ready, incorporating Debian 12 along with other significant updates. This new version of Raspberry Pi OS(Raspberry Pi OS) is designed to fully support the newly released Raspberry Pi 5news.itsfoss.com. To achieve this, developers have invested a great deal of effort and energy. … Read more
📚 Open Source Technology DailyExploring the infinite possibilities of the open-source world2025/7/20🚀 Debian 13.0 ‘Trixie’ is scheduled for release on August 9The Debian release team announced today the final release plan for Debian 13 ‘Trixie’, which is expected to be officially launched as a stable version within a month.Debian developers are working hard to officially … Read more
Background of the Issue Initial State: After re-flashing the Raspberry Pi system, the Touch Display 2 only shows the cursor and does not display the full desktop. During this process, a segmentation fault in libc-bin caused system instability. Prerequisites: Core Hardware List for Raspberry Pi Project 1. Raspberry Pi 5 ▪ Model: Raspberry Pi (16GB) … Read more
🏖️ Zblock Compressed Slab Memory Allocator Expected to Land in Linux 6.16 Kernel With only one month left until the merge window for Linux 6.16 opens, the new Zblock allocator has been incorporated into Andrew Morton’s “MM” memory management code tree, and is highly likely to appear in the next kernel merge cycle.The design goal … Read more
OSCHINA ↑ Click the blue text to follow us After years of effort in 2024, the Raspberry Pi teamis ready to use Wayland in the Raspberry Pi desktop environment. Over the past year, the Raspberry Pi has invested significant development resources to support Wayland in its default system, Raspberry Pi OS. Last year, Raspberry Pi … Read more
Introduction As we all know, the i.MX series chips have a wide range of applications in the multimedia field. Based on this point, we introduced various display interfaces and methods for building GStreamer pipelines in previous series. In the coming period, we will analyze another important component of the display part – Wayland & Weston. … Read more