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Ubuntu Fixes Old NVIDIA Wayland Support For GNOME, Hiring More Desktop Engineers


There are a few interesting bits of information as part of this week's updates from the Ubuntu Desktop Team Integration Squad.

Prominent GNOME developer Daniel Van Vugt at Canonical has continued working on a number of interesting patch series. Thus the small fix to Mutter was upstreamed for restoring that EGLDevice support to satisfy those running the legacy NVIDIA 470 Linux driver and wanting to enjoy Wayland. Canonical continues hiring from cloud and AI/ML engineers to various desktop roles around working with their OEM partners like Dell, HP, and Lenovo on Ubuntu for pre-load systems.

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