Following on from part 1 in the series, part 2 covers more developments in low-level graphics, which have been enabled through the whole stack. Support for buffer modifiers is something we’ve worked on in the kernel, Mesa, Wayland, Weston, Mutter and GNOME Shell, and X.Org. Meanwhile, our community continues to grow thanks to Google Summer of Code. Read on for more.
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