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Guardrails have been in place where the Firefox browser has enabled Wayland by default (when running on recent GTK versions) but as of today that code has been removed… Firefox will try to move forward with stable releases where Wayland will ship by default!
Mozilla Bug 1752398 to “ship the Wayland backend to release” has been closed this evening!
After the ticket was open for the past two years, it’s now deemed ready to hopefully ship enabled for Firefox 121!
This patch drops the “early beta or earlier” check to let Wayland support be enabled by default when running on recent GTK versions (GTK 3.24.30 threshold).
Firefox 121 is due for release around 19 December and if all continues to hold, it will finally ship with the Wayland back-end enabled by default as another big step forward.
With KDE Plasma 6.0 using Wayland by default, XWayland rootful mode improving, and other (X)Wayland progress, 2024 could very well be the year of Wayland shining in the Linux desktop limelight.
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After working at ATI/AMD for more than a quarter century and being the open-source graphics driver manager during the early days, John Bridgman has retired.
The open-source AMD graphics driver journey has been a heck of a ride over the past decade and a half and remains going strong.
In more recent years it’s been even better with seeing pre-launch open-source graphics driver support in the upstream kernel and Mesa and it’s been continuing that way since with Linux all the more important these days.
John Bridgman back at FOSDEM 2008 presenting on AMD’s early open-source graphics driver plans.
In 2011~2012 he moved on from his formal open-source GPU driver manager role to begin tackling AMD HSA Linux support that he went on to do for several years.
Congratulations to Bridgman on the well-deserved retirement and thanks to his efforts of helping advocate for open-source Linux driver support over the years.
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