High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wayland is a lightweight display server for the Linux desktop, with the aim that "every frame is perfect, by which I mean that applications will be able to control the rendering enough that we'll never see tearing, lag, redrawing or flicker".Wayland was started by Kristian Høgsberg, a software engineer working for Red Hat, maker of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) an Operating System.Wayland uses existing technologies in the Linux kernel such as the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM), kernel mode-setting (KMS) and the Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) batchbuffer in order to provide a minimal display server.