What are some exciting projects that you follow and hope to see progress on?
I’ll start!
- Wayland greeter on SDDM
- rust support on gcc
- more Wayland adoption (especially VSCodium & Firefox forks)
- Reproducible Build
- ReactOS
Wayland on Plasma (sure, it works but still work in progress)
Lapce (like vscode but native)
Proper keyboard and screen sharing for WaylandSo many Wayland…
too many.
Bcachefs getting merged in the kernel
- I don’t realistically expect to see any progress here but video hardware acceleration gaining first-class support in popular applications would be a nice dream. The one area Linux is complacent to be “inefficient”.
- One of the KDE devs has been working on some magic that might keep application state even after the desktop crashes.
- Chimera Linux.
Is Chimera Linux still under development? I thought that project died a while ago…
You must be confusing Chimera Linux with something else. The project had a new release over a week ago. https://chimera-linux.org/news/
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This one’s exciting!
I’d love to see more work on Nvidia for wayland
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Looks promising. A piece of software I didn’t know I needed.
NVK drivers for nvidia GPUs
Helix editor, especially plugin system
Pretty niche, but:
https://github.com/canboat/canboatAllows me to interface a PC to a canbus in an efficient manner. I wrote an autopilot in perl using that, but I would like to see the project mature to the point where it is stable enough for production environments.
Apart from what’s already been mentioned, I’m eager to test Spacedrive
- bcachefs
- the EEVDF scheduler
Bcachefs sounds incredible.
it sucks that bcachefs cannot be run as a dkms as it cannot be run as a module (only built-in)
It is coming in 6.7, I think. What are the advantages of bcachefs over something like ext4 or btrfs?
dream2nix
Plasma 6
The cosmic DE
Wayland in XFCE (GOD, PLEASE HURRY UP)
Wine on wayland
VanillaOS 2
- Rpm-ostree: more robust apply-live updates; local rpm package upgrades without needing to remove previous versions first
- Thunderbird/K-9 Mail: continued work on modernizing the UI and features of both desktop and mobile versions
- GNOME: smoother animations and increased performance for low-end GPUs and IGPs (triple buffering implementation, etc.)
- Firefox Mobile: site isolation
There’s this new browser engine being developed called Servo. Nowhere near production ready but definitely future.
Wasn’t this the one originally abandoned by Mozilla and then getting picked back up by someone?
