Thread: The Linux Graphics Stack

Are The Open-Source Graphics Drivers Good Enough For Steam Linux Gaming? (phoronix.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by pushcx Oct 30, 2015 gameshardwarelinux Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Gaming / Retro Computing Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

The Linux Graphics Stack (blog.mecheye.net)

L 9 pts 3 comments by friendlysock Jul 5, 2016 graphicslinux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread

![So easy anyone can contribute](http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/jkq0dm6modsubaw59qy0.jpg)

The Linux graphics stack from X to Wayland (2011) (arstechnica.com)

L 3 pts 1 comments by calvin Sep 19, 2016 graphicslinux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread

Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop return as Linux desktop (theregister.co.uk)

L 18 pts 6 comments by rodolfo Jun 5, 2017 historicallinux Systems / Low-Level / OS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

See project page here: http://www.maxxinteractive.com/site

Linux Graphics Demystified (keyj.emphy.de)

L 11 pts 4 comments by beyang Jul 25, 2017 graphicslinuxpdfprogramming Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General) thread

Low-Level Graphics on Linux (betteros.org)

L 21 pts 0 comments by calvin Aug 31, 2017 graphicslinuxprogramming Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General) thread

Working on hard, ambitious graphics software for the dream of FOSS (sourcesort.com)

L 35 pts 11 comments by emilepw Feb 9, 2020 cgraphicshardwarelinuxreversing Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

From Panfrost to production, a tale of Open Source graphics (collabora.com)

L 9 pts 0 comments by mfilion Nov 3, 2020 graphicslinux Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General) thread

Linux graphics, why sharing code with Windows isn't always a win (airlied.blogspot.com)

L 24 pts 0 comments by calvin Nov 12, 2020 linux Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General) thread

Understanding EGL, GLX and friends in the Linux and X graphics stack (utcc.utoronto.ca)

L 8 pts 0 comments by calvin Sep 25, 2021 graphicslinux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread

Switching the Linux graphics stack from GLX to EGL (mozillagfx.wordpress.com)

L 28 pts 18 comments by calvin Oct 30, 2021 browsersgraphicslinux Web Development Systems / Low-Level / OS thread

DirectFB2 project brings back DirectFB graphics library for Linux embedded systems (cnx-software.com)

L 7 pts 0 comments by raymii Jan 26, 2022 linux Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

External graphics cards work on the Raspberry Pi (jeffgeerling.com)

L 21 pts 3 comments by raymii Apr 27, 2022 graphicshardwarelinux Systems / Low-Level / OS Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 1 (lwn.net)

L 18 pts 0 comments by xoranth Dec 20, 2023 graphicslinux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread

Whither the Apple AGX graphics driver? (lwn.net)

L 23 pts 14 comments by calvin Sep 4, 2024 graphicslinuxrust Systems / Low-Level / OS Apple / macOS / iOS thread

How do graphics drivers work? (timur.hu)

L 14 pts 0 comments by Aks Dec 17, 2025 graphicslinux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread

Understanding your Linux graphics driver stack (timur.hu)

L 8 pts 0 comments by Bernerd Dec 22, 2025 graphicslinux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread

Detailed postmortem and patch for Linux leap second bug (lkml.org)

L 2 pts 0 comments by jed Jul 2, 2012 linuxnews Systems / Low-Level / OS Internet / Digital Culture thread

Software-Defined Radio remotely using a Linux wall wart (digifail.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by inactive-user Jul 10, 2012 hardwarelinux Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

How statically linked programs run on Linux (eli.thegreenplace.net)

L 4 pts 0 comments by inactive-user Aug 13, 2012 assemblyclinux Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General) thread

Boot the Linux kernel inside your browser (bellard.org)

L 6 pts 0 comments by tim Aug 30, 2012 javascriptlinux Web Development Systems / Low-Level / OS thread

This is work by Fabrice Bellard, the author of a long list of technically impressive projects that includes FFMPEG and QEMU. It makes heavy use of typed arrays in order to achieve acceptably fast x86 emulation. Consult the technical notes for more details: http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html.

Data science linux distribution (datasciencelinux.com)

L 3 pts 1 comments by bravura Aug 31, 2012 linux Systems / Low-Level / OS Science / Math / Physics thread

The Linux Graphics Stack (blog.mecheye.net)

L 5 pts 0 comments by tedu Sep 6, 2012 cunix Systems / Low-Level / OS thread

Applies 99% to systems other than linux too.

cr0 blog: Introducing Chrome's next-generation Linux sandbox (blog.cr0.org)

L 3 pts 0 comments by syndrowm Sep 7, 2012 linuxsecurity Systems / Low-Level / OS Security / Privacy Internet / Digital Culture thread

Util-Linux Cheat Sheetcode (catonmat.net)

L 3 pts 0 comments by rob Sep 8, 2012 linux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread

From Linux to OSX - 1 Year Later (batsov.com)

L 5 pts 0 comments by odin Sep 9, 2012 linuxmac Systems / Low-Level / OS Apple / macOS / iOS thread

A port of the OpenBSD userland to Linux (github.com)

L 4 pts 1 comments by jcs Sep 10, 2012 linuxopenbsd Systems / Low-Level / OS thread

Linus Torvalds goes off on Linux and Git (typicalprogrammer.com)

L 9 pts 5 comments by waseem Sep 27, 2012 linuxsatire Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General) thread

Advanced Linux Programming (advancedlinuxprogramming.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by fcambus Oct 10, 2012 booklinux Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Attacking hardened Linux systems with kernel JIT spraying (mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by jcs Nov 18, 2012 linuxsecurity Systems / Low-Level / OS Security / Privacy thread